DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

What is it with the holidays and gruesome spree killers? Christopher and Eric return to the true crime series HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS and serve up Season 2, Episode 8, "Bloody New Year's". When beloved Cindy Luu is murdered in front of her children on New Year's Eve, it kicks off a shocking crime wave and the Edmonton Police Service are drawn into a breathless hunt for answers. Is it gang violence, racially motivated hate or a twisted form of revenge? The death toll is staggering before the night is through. Secrets, betrayal and broken families are a recipe for disaster year round. But at the holidays, this toxic brew seems especially combustible.

(This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)

Christopher and Eric shine a light on their favorite bright spots in a very dark year, serving up their picks for the most helpful, therapeutic and diverting highlights of 2020, the year of the pandemic. The result is a sumptuous buffet of entertainment options, exercise aids and self-care apps we're sure you'll enjoy. None of these are paid endorsements. Christopher and Eric are way too bitchy for that. (And nobody's offered them enough money yet.) Your hosts also weigh in on the recent HBO true-crime documentary CRAZY, NOT INSANE, which promises to challenge our ideas around the insanity defense in major criminal cases. Does it, though?

(This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)

It wouldn't be the holidays if Christopher and Eric weren't talking about the hideous antics of a psychopath who destroys everything he touches. And that's the perfect description of TDPS special correspondent Jordan Ampersand, who makes a surprise appearance to smear his own noxious brand of holiday cheer all over this episode. And then, of course, there's the real-life psychopath in a Santa suit who turns the Christmas holidays into an excuse to terrorize Southern California in this disturbing installment of Christopher and Eric's True Crime TV Club, which serves up Season 1, Episode 3 of HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, entitled "Santa Claus Is Coming To Kill".

(This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)

Christopher and Eric have served up true crime TV specials galore. Now it's time to unleash their sharp and silver tongues on a bigger screen in this new series devoted to breaking down feature films inspired by real life true crime dramas. The savage murder of a gay porn producer Bryan Kocis and its possible connection to an ongoing legal dispute with "twink" porn sensation Brent Corrigan made headlines in 2007. It also inspired a movie in which a former Disney star had tons of gay sex. But is KING COBRA a true-to-life thriller or a gooey hash of fact and fiction that serves the wrong masters? To find answers, Christopher and Eric will dive into the real story that inspired this excuse for James Franco to play gay (again).

(This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)

There's very little diva Wendy Williams can't pull off, but how good is she at narrating a true crime series? Christopher and Eric are determined to find out as they serve up Episode 3 of Season 1 of DEATH BY GOSSIP, entitled "Her Last Christmas", in which the radio and TV star takes us to Jacksonville, Florida where a Christmas gift from the devil unleashes holy hell during the holiday season. Along the way, we're introduced to judgy neighbors with better front yards than yours and a swingers club with as many backstabbers as front loaders.

(This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)

Assuming it wasn't this one, Christopher and Eric asked you, the Party People, to share your recollections of the best Thanksgiving ever, and the result was a rousing discussion that gives us hope we can weather the strangest of all holiday seasons together.

(This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)

Thanksgiving is the bloodiest time of the year. And not just for turkeys. In their first ever double stuffed, special edition of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, your hosts bring you not one, but two true crime specials in one. Eric heads to the town of Jupiter, Florida where he serves up a shocking family massacre in  Episode 1 of Season 1 of HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, "A Deadly Thanksgiving", and Christopher travels to northern Washington State where he serves up a hippie-turned-holy roller's Thanksgiving torture slaying on Episode 3 of Season 2 of MURDER COMES TO TOWN, "Who Killed Thanksgiving?" Trust us. These families will make you thankful for the one you got.

(This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)

Christopher and Eric reached out to you, the Party People, on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page to find out how you're handling the holidays during this year without compare. Are you gathering around a socially distanced Thanksgiving table? Sanitizing your Christmas presents for forty-eight hours before opening? Hanging masks from the tree in the living room?  Your answers were enlightening and they inspired a conversation about resilience and acceptance during difficult times.

(This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)

For their 50th episode, Christopher and Eric visit the 50th state! On the latest installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, your hosts take you to the island paradise of Hawaii and don't find anything close to the tropical escape they've been looking for. In the summer of 1931, when an inebriated Navy Officer’s wife decides to walk home alone from a local nightspot, the result is a series of shocking accusations resulting in an abominable lynching, rising geopolitical tensions and the near collapse of Hawaii's sugar industry. Could marriage counseling have saved the day?  Doubtful. Join Christopher and Eric for a shocking history lesson of justice delayed, denied and lost to history. Evil thy name is Grace. That's all we're saying. (You’ll see!)

(This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)

As Christopher comes out as a fan of cryptids, Eric wonders if these amateur videographers really captured some frenzied hauntings or if they've just got the world (and their appliances) on a string.  It's a special Halloween-adjacent episode that tackles the wild and supposedly frightening world of furry bigfoots, shapeshifters and ghosts, ghosts and more ghosts. Your hosts serve up two episodes of PARANORMAL CAUGHT ON CAMERA. Christopher gets mauled by Season 1, Episode 2, "Oregon Bigfoot and More", while Eric spends the night with Season 1, Episode 6, "Seedy Motel Poltergeist". Along the way, they visit Utah's Skinwalker Ranch and a no-tell motel that can't shut up. Is it creepy or just crappy? You be the judge.

(This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)