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The joke comic that turned into a sincere dramedic epic, today we tackle the first third of the series as collected in the BIG HARD OMNIBUS Vol. 1

Matt Fraction is a long-time indie comics and Marvel writer, and now the co-creator of the tv show MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS with Chris Black. Be sure to check out our previous interview with Chris about the tv show SEVERANCE and his working with Matt on Monarch!

Chip Zdarky was a Canadian journalist turned comics writer and artist, with SEX CRIMINALS being his very first.

Today we cover the origins of the series, the super fun stories about its launch party at a Canadian sex club, discuss the story's merits, and of course tell you which wines you should pair with such an outlandish yet strangely grounded work.

THE WINES:
Dallas' Wine
Inniskillin Vidal Ice Wine
An Austrain and an Italian started up a Canadian winery with an Irish name in 1974 and was granted the first winery license by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario since prohibition. Cut to 1991 when they brought Canadian wine into the international limelight by winning the Grand Prix d’Honneur at Vin Expo, France for Karl Kaiser’s 1989 Vidal Icewine.

Icewine is made by allowing grapes to freeze on the vine then crushing them with the juice still frozen. This keeps most of the water out of the high-sugar must that remains, creating a highly concentrated, sweet wine with complex, concentrated flavor.

Inniskillin makes icewine from the Vidal grape, Resling grape, and Cabernet Franc grape. Prices range from $40 - $100+ depending on the vintage and style.

Dave's Wine
2021 Ludovic Montginot Cote du Py Morgon Beaujolais
Morgon is considered one of the premiere areas in the Beaujolais region, and Ludovic Montginot is an actual one-man show tending to his 3 hectares of vineyards and working in his cellar completely unassisted! His Morgon conatins all the freshness and vibrancy of a Beaujolais while also containing a rustic, meaty quality rarely found in this style of wine. A perfect harmony of the frivilous and the serious, much like the Sex Criminals comic, plus Montginot's solitude represents where the comic begins - being alone in the world before finding another to share it with.

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Chris is an Exec Producer and Writer on Severance Season 1. He's been writing TV since the mid-90's! Weird Science, Sliders, Cleopatra 2525, Star Trek: Enterprise, Desperate Housewives, Mad Men, Ugly Betty, Lone Star, Outcast, Invincible, Severance (which is why he's here today), and most recently, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.

Chris oversaw the Severance Season 1 writer's room and is the credited writer on Episode 8 (though as you'll learn in today's interview, which parts of which episode which writer actually wrote gets a bit complicated.)

Part 1: How Did This Get Made?
Part 2: Episodes 1-3 (and wine pairings with those episodes)
Part 3: Episodes 4-6 (and wine pairings with those episodes)
Part 4: Episodes 7-9 (and wine pairings with those episodes)
Part 5: Interview with Chris Black, Executive Producer and Writer on Severance

CHRIS' BEVERAGE PAIRING:
Cali Squeeze Blood Orange Wheat Ale, Firestone Walker Brewing Company, San Louis Obispo, California
Brewed with real blood orange for maximum refreshment. A crisp, ruby red beer with juicy orange and fresh citrus flavors, that always go down easy. Cali Squeeze is a Hefeweizen (wheat ale) that includes barley malt, malted wheat, toasted wheat, and Cara-malt. Refreshing, low in bitterness, pale yellow, and slightly hazy.
5% ABV, 15 IBU

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The best TV show of 2022, sez us! This is the first in a 5-part series covering all of Severance Season 1, the show created by Dan Erikson, directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, and starring Adam Scott.

Part 1: How Did This Get Made?
Part 2: Episodes 1-3 (and wine pairings with those episodes)
Part 3: Episodes 4-6 (and wine pairings with those episodes)
Part 4: Episodes 7-9 (and wine pairings with those episodes)
Part 5: Interview with Chris Black, Executive Producer and Writer on Severance

In this episode, we cover Episodes 7-9, the final episodes of Season 1, all directed by Ben Stiller, and cover the wine pairings for these episodes.

THE WINES:

DALLAS' WINE
No new wine pairing from Dallas! He says stick to the Cab Francs from the previous episodes:
2019 Red Newt Cellars Cabernet Franc, Glacier Ridge Vineyard, Finger Lakes, New York
or
2022 Domaine des Sables Verts Saumur-Champigny "Glouglou"

DAVE'S WINE
Brady Vineyard Paso Robles Cabernet Franc 2021
A warmer weather Cab Franc compared to Dallas' picks. Dave says you need the greater intensity for these intense final episodes - more extraction, more "sweetness" (not literal sugar sweetness, but jamminess), yet still with Franc's acidic and green pepper bite. The wine featured in the show is from the Lorimar Winery but that Cab Franc is not currently avaiable, so Brady Vineyard's also from Paso, is an excellent, available alternative!

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