![]() The "comic-book" styling is completely gone, as are the trivia bits between segments. The episodes in the rest of Season One, while maintaining the "tongue-in-cheek" story-telling aspect of the first two shows, vary in formatting compared to the pilot. The third episode also debuted a new narrator, actor Ron Perlman, instead of Beers, who previously narrated the pilot episodes. Season One was written and directed by Tom McMahon. Shot months after the pilot, the remaining episodes of the first season is executive produced by Thom Beers who also created the series. The released animals then feed on his corpse for two weeks before it is found by police.Ī repairman is accidentally trapped inside an industrial clothes dryer and dies of being battered around and excess heat within minutes.Įpisode 2: Hard Lives, Easy Deaths Electing to ride out the symptoms of his latrodectism, he suffers a fatal heart attack, knocking over his reptile tanks. While going home to have sex with a female friend to celebrate her coming out, the woman takes off her high heels and steps barefoot into a puddle with a live wire in it and is electrocuted.Ī reclusive French amateur entomologist and herpetologist is bitten by his black widow spider in a misguided attempt to build an immunity to its venom. When he ducks, he falls onto a rattlesnake, which bites him near his heart.Īfter being involved in a series of bad relationships, a woman decides to become a lesbian. His upper body and legs are accidentally sent to separate hospitals.Ī construction worker is buried under three tons of sand and dies from crush asphyxia.Ī drunk man is shot at by his equally drunk brother. The story ends with another comic screenshot, over which the "Way to Die # " and the nickname for the death is typed over the image in black and red "True Crimes"/"Sin City"/"comic" font.Ī man is run over and cut in half by an 18-wheeler while working under his car in a parking lot. The story is interspersed with expert testimony from physicians and scientists about the science of the death (what happens to the body, etc.). ![]() The narrator gives an account of the story as it unfolds, describing the circumstances leading up to the death and details of the death itself. The first story begins with the opening screenshot drawn as a comic, which fades to the live action. "The fact that we survive at all is a miracle." "The human body is remarkably resilient." (note: in the following sentence, only the ALL CAPPED words are illustrated in large, red "Sin City"/"comic" font the rest are only heard) "Every day we fight a new WAR against GERMS, TOXINS, INJURY, ILLNESS, CATASTROPHE and Calamity." The disclaimer then cuts to a scene of a city at night, followed by images of various manners of death, either from episodes or file footages, while the voice-over reads the monologue, which appears in "comic-book" style (comic font inside yellow boxes, as in a comic book): Names have been changed to protect the identities of the deceased." " WARNING: The deaths portrayed in this show are real and extremely graphic." "The stories you are about to see are true and based on actual events. Both episodes begin with the following disclaimer: They were executive produced and narrated by series creator Thom Beers, and directed, co-written, and produced by Will Raee and co-written by Tom McMahon. The first two episodes of Season One served as the series two-episode pilot.
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