Christopher & Eric

Let's just say this is the deepest of the deep fried episodes of DATELINE you'll ever find, and Christopher and Eric can think of no more fitting an end to Hot Dateline Month than this grease-poppin', wife-hoppin' installment. (Trigger warning. Given their own illustrious ancestries, your hosts will be using the term "white trash" as much as they damn well feel like, thank you very much ) There are extramarital shenanigans inside of an exterminator's truck in the courthouse parking lot. Also, a pivotal piece of evidence involves French fries. Hot ones. Need we say more? Welcome to Morris, Alabama where we're told everything is about church. Sure, Morris.

Hot Dateline Month has delivered sultry swaying palms and bleak Montana highways. Now it's time to head to an affluent Midwestern suburb where  — wait for it! — a seemingly idyllic marriage is not all it's cracked up to be. You know it's going to be a doozy when the narration begins by describing the episode as "One of the strangest stories we've ever had on DATELINE." Enter episode 4 of season 29, entitled "Sex, Lies And Murder" where you'll meet Jane and Bob Bashara, the couple who has it all — including a semi-secret BDSM dungeon Bob keeps in the basement of one of his rental properties. And does this case hinge on the ick-factor-disapproval of suburban sensibilities? On this particular question, Christopher and Eric aren't sure they agree.

Hot Dateline Month continues with this breakneck chase down the long dark highway of mental illness. Episode 16 of season 31, entitled "On A Dark, Deserted Highway", begins decades before the terrifying police pursuit that gives this episode its name. It’s the dark saga of a tormented man whose twisted actions towards his wives and loved ones should have resulted in his confinement and treatment years before he went on a deadly shooting spree and high speed chase on a peaceful Montana night. How does one man end up turning against the very system that allowed his crimes to go unchecked for years?  That's the question Christopher and Eric wrestle with in this truly disturbing installment of one of their favorite true crime shows.

Welcome to Hot Dateline Month in which your hosts Christopher and Eric celebrate the iconic, storied and always reliable true crime phenomenon that started their obsession with the genre. And what better way to kick off this tribute than with the GAYEST DATELINE EVER. (That's not what NBC called it, of course.) Impeccably dressed fine arts dealers and terribly twinky con men collide under the scorching Palm Springs sun in the 3,675th episode of the 329th season of DATELINE. (Just kidding. It's actually episode 3 of season 34, so we're not that far off.) "The Prince, The Whiz Kid and the Millionaire" has all the ingredients of a novel written by your hosts poolside after one box of bon bons too many.

Christopher and Eric are throwing a massive wrap party for one of the most exhausting and exhilarating years they've ever lived. No kidding. With ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION having been a glowing success in New Orleans on November 1st, and the sparkling film version now available for your free home viewing at AnneRice.com, they're taking time to celebrate some of the films, TV shows and books they didn't write in the previous year, but loved none the less. Care for a handsome British detective anyone? No doubt, several made the list.