About this episode

The episode discusses how to approach a sensitive topic in storytelling, featuring Daniel Roebuck and references to Jay Leno.

How do you make a sexual slavery Ariel Castro story compelling and, uh, not gross? You hire Daniel Roebuck and remind Ronnie and Jazz of that time he portrayed Jay Leno in The Late Shift. "Hostage" is basically what would happen if instead of holding late night television hostage Leno did it to three girls. Ronnie kept kicking this one down the schedule but Criminal Minds should've just led with "unsub Jay Leno".

People in this episode

Hosts: Ronnie, Jazz

Guest: Daniel Roebuck

Topics covered

• sexual slavery
• Ariel Castro
• Jay Leno
• Criminal Minds
• comedy
• film analysis

Keywords

• Ariel Castro
• Jay Leno
• The Late Shift
• Hostage
• Criminal Minds
• comedy
• film

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Late Shift, Hostage, Criminal Minds

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