I read everything, and that isnt bragging because I read some crap that I hide from visitors because its embarrassing. My history books, my philosophy books, they are out in the open... but the Romance novels, the trash western and adventure novels, those are kept out of sight. Ive already been caught by a roommate when I was reading The Wolf and the Dove, because I found a paperback for $1 at a library and it was the only thing that looked entertaining at the time. Anyway Hitchcock reminds me of the old pulp novels I pick up at antique stores. It reminds me of some of the pulp megapacks you can buy on Amazon... only in some cases the stories are a lot better with Hitchcock. He stands the test of time, my wife is watching him independently. As in, its OLD, she is a Millennial, and I dont have to force her to watch something old for once. Usually with Millennials and Gen-Z Old=Evil and they actively dont bother.... but she is getting older and starting to embrace that what came before can be good too. That is a high mark, its not an easy feat to get her into black and white anything. She ate this up. It stands the test of time, in the 60s it was good, and in 2022 its still good. Not much ages like fine wine. Hitchcock does.
Hitchcock and the commercials. Hitchcocks signature was his friendly rivalry with sponsors, which probably helped his sponsors simply by the recognition. It tough to rate an anthology, but most of these stories were very good. His best ones were with characters you didnt really relate with, but still felt something for. Such was the case for what I call his masterpiece, with Gig Young and Robert Redford playing brothers with sky high superiority complexes in A Piece of the Action, and with Robert Keith, Ed Byrnes, and Stephen McNally in Final Escape, and with Mr. Haney himself in The Jar. Then there were some comedies. One in which he purposely made it predictable that a dining club was eating its members when they got fat enough. The dark comedy was funny because of how oblivious the member was for being the next meal, even though everything pointed to it. There werent many episodes where you felt you could relate to any of the characters, which is good, because most of the characters were fanatically arrogant, egotistical, or sadistic, so you didnt mind when they were buried alive or killed by mobsters who didnt like card cheats.
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