This week’s episode, “The Target” was the penultimate episode of Escape and featured Whitfield Connor as Vic Kennedy, a hard-boiled insurance investigator scouring South America to track down a man named Arthur Matson. Soon the case leads Vic to a dead body and a femme fatale, as well as deceptions and accusations. Will he track down his target? Was Vic complicit in Matson’s escape? Is this guy worse than all the other terrible men in the noir genre? Listen for yourself and find out! Then vote and let us know what you think!
Half way through the episode and I have to say this is the best episode of Word Jazz I have ever heard!
So imagine my surprise after listening to the discussion segment of the podcast and hearing that I had completely missed everything in this show. In my defense I listen at work a lot and was probably not paying enough attention but at first listening all I heard was some standard noir characters talking in clichés without any trace of a plot. Who are these people? What are they doing? I had no idea but I did enjoy some of the dialog. Then you guys come along and give it such weight. In a way this is good because now I… Read more »