*New Free Episode* Ep70: A brief introduction to True Detective Season 2, our Great American Novel

Happy almost Labor Day everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the long weekend.I decided to make last year’s True Detective Season 2 episode free for a limited time just to give our unfortunate free subscribers a sample of what the “bread and butter” episodes of the podcast are like. I recommend turning the playback speed up to 1.5x or 2x to make things a bit more listenable.As always, I strongly recommend upgrading to a paid subscription, we have a lot of cool new paid-exclusive content on the way. We recently finished half of a group readthrough of Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel and will be kicking off the second half shortly. The book club episodes are some of my favorite content that I’ve done on Substack so far, it really is a lot of fun to go through the book again with the high human capital that has accumulated in our beautiful paid-exclusive comments section.Mystery Grove Book Club Meeting 1: Always with Honor Chapters 1-3Mystery Grove Book Club Meeting 2: Always with Honor Chapters 4-6Mystery Grove Book Club Meeting 3: Always with Honor Chapters 7-9The most recent podcast episodes are below, pretty much everything over the last two years has been paid-exclusive. Paid subs help support my work a lot and I think you would enjoy the benefits as well.Ep94: David Fincher’s Zodiac (2006) is about your inability to accept that you are a weird loser (Paid)Ep93: For personal reasons I will be burning myself alive in front of Halo Studios headquarters in Redmond, Washington (Paid)Ep92: I watched Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) like two weeks ago and just remembered I had to do an episode on it? (Paid)Ep91: [Minions & Monsters review] Should you see this new cinematic odyssey in theaters now? (Paid)Ep90: Should you watch new movie Young Washington (2026) this Independence Day? (Paid)Ep89: New anti-migrant thriller Citizen Vigilante (2026) really makes you think (Paid)Ep88: What really happened with the Zebra Murders, America’s deadliest* serial killing? (Free)Ep87: I really loved Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) and think you would love it too (Paid)Ep86: I watched the first season of Yellowstone-spinoff Y: Marshals (2026) and now wish I were dead (Paid)The Conundrum Cluster is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com/subscribe