Unwinding Wyrdwood S2 E7: The Tower (Part 1)
Added 2025-08-22 20:15:01 +0000 UTCThe Tower? Oh, friend, we don't go near the tower. For that's where you'll find... the latest episode of Unwinding Wyrdwood! This week in our post show chat, Dungeon Master Johnny Chiodini and Oxventure Producer Zack Fortais-Gomm break down episode 7: The Tower (Part 1), including the grotesque denizens of the tower, Nichol's whole deal and the surprising similarities between Morven Hellwain and Keira Knightley. Enjoy, let us know what you thought in the comments and we'll see you here next week for the finale!
Comments
I think the "big underground machine that turns a cake display upstairs" thing is a Far Side comic. It's definitely something I've seen before, anyway. I seem to recall there are two people staring at the cakes and having an exchange along the lines of "I wonder what makes it spin like that...", "Eh, who cares?".
Ameena
2025-08-27 14:36:45 +0000 UTCI love Johnny and the gang and will enjoy anything they put out, but I have to agree that S2 has felt less folky than when they were in the Wyrdwood. The Fog episode was fantastic, and captured the right vibe (in my mind, at least) for the idea of getting lost on the moors. I think having the second half of an 8-episode run revolve just around the tower really limited how much we got to have a feel for the character & fae-folk of Mossfold, making it feel like the party have barely seen any of it by the end of the season. Still enjoying it, mind, I’ll always love anything Oxventure
Redders
2025-08-25 02:17:31 +0000 UTCi think Johnny did a great job with the tower, i was wondering if the capstan had anything to do with the thing that released the beef piles or conducted the electricity to the 2 jars but it sounds like it wasn't connected to that either
Iche
2025-08-24 07:08:30 +0000 UTCOkay, so we've had 7 episodes so far this season, about to be 8, and only 3 of them have been folk horror, while the finale seems to just be gore p*rn. This is exactly what I was afraid of when we left the woods. Marshes really can be excellent places for folk horror, like around Louisiana, but this isn't really marsh so much as grassland. Towers infamously do not stand in marshlands, and there certainly shouldn't be space enough for an entire army camp. A creepy, weird, old tower half sunk into the marsh in the middle of nowhere could have given so much more room for story telling and a strange environment. Folk horror doesn't need armies and epic battles; it should be small and spooky. You're an excellent story teller, Johnny, but I feel we've lost the thread and the theme here.
Jeremy
2025-08-24 07:07:07 +0000 UTC
