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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 1d

Just announced! I've been working on an interactive novel in the Hunter: The Reckoning franchise!

Day For Night lets you play as a veteran Hunter fighting back against the monsters of Hollywood over one blockbuster summer.

store.steampowered.com/app/3133670/...

Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night on Steam

These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World o...

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 1d

The old Hollywood is dying and the new one struggles to be born.

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 1d

It's been very fun to write something that contains so many of my favorite subjects: monsters, movies, weird & obscure Hollywood lore, religion, immortality, fame, burnout, grief, and karaoke.

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 1d

Just announced! I've been working on an interactive novel in the Hunter: The Reckoning franchise!

Day For Night lets you play as a veteran Hunter fighting back against the monsters of Hollywood over one blockbuster summer.

store.steampowered.com/app/3133670/...

Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night on Steam

These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World o...

store.steampowered.com

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 12d

NEW DEVELOPMENT:

The Hudson & Rex fandom has taken out a *full page ad* in the Toronto Star to voice their displeasure with recent developments and seek justice for the original Hudson. (Credit to my mother-in-law for the discovery and photo.)

A full page Toronto Star ad describes the situation and demands answers from CityTV.

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

Makes a lot of sense, thank you for the context!

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

I imagine the active online fandom would be younger for sure. I just noticed that the current replies to Reardon tend to be older women who loved the show and him which I found wholesome. I'd also guess based on ads run on the show and just it being on terrestrial TV that there's a demographic skew.

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

I'm sure to a devoted fan, this experience must absolutely suck and I'm so sorry it's happening!

I hope you can appreciate how COMPLETELY BONKERS this entire behind the scenes saga is to someone watching from outside, and how comically discrepant it is with a fairly wholesome cozy mystery dog show.

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

Oh my god

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Kurt Smeaton @smeatonpotatoes.bsky.social · 16d

Excellent thread, Josh! Someone once told me that in every shot where Diesel jumps over the camera, they would have to digitally remove his penis in post. Hours of someone’s life has gone into this task.

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

She says it's very nice to hear from you!

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

At least in that case they had the advantage that the guy's name wasn't in the title.

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

We watched every episode of season 5 at least 10 times before seeing an episode from any other season

I can go over the whole hostage situation one where Ricky from Trailer Park Boys is the villain from memory

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

WHY IS IT ALWAYS SEASON 5

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

The replies have exploded with nice older ladies who mainly liked watching the show for the handsome guy and the cute dog. The overall mood is grim. I am absolutely riveted to see where this goes next.

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

Hours later, the old Hudson posts on Instagram sharing that he didn't quit the show, seemingly claiming that he was essentially fired while recovering from cancer??

An Instagram caption explains that the original actor did not wish to leave Hudson & Rex, but the team chose to go in another direction with the show after his cancer diagnosis.

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

Today an article about the new Hudson and his rapport with the new Rex came out and its tone seemed slightly... odd, like they were trying to position the new Hudson as the superior Hudson. Is... is this supposed to imply the old Hudson stepped on the dog...?

Article reads: "Davis loves noticing the little kindnesses Dillon enjoys in his and Roberts' ever blooming relationship. 'He opens the door for the dog,' she said. 'And he hasn't stepped on him once.'

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

So now the "Rex" portion of Hudson & Rex has been replaced. Not long after, the actor who played Hudson began to face health challenges and the show cast a new Hudson. THAT'S RIGHT, THEY HAVE ACHIEVED A COMPLETE SHIP OF THESEUS BY REPLACING BOTH TITLE CHARACTERS

A poster shows the new Hudson with the new Rex

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

THE DOG DIED AND THEY KEPT IT A SECRET FOR SIX MONTHS. They "Paul is Dead"ed the dog!

A Toronto Star headline reads: "Why ‘Hudson & Rex’ kept the death of its canine star a secret for six months"

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

Rex was originally played by a dog named Diesel vom Burgamwald.

But this past year, my wife and I noticed that the dog looked... different.

The original

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

ANYWAY Hudson & Rex is basically a pretty standard Canadian police procedural except sometimes at the end of an episode the dog jumps through a plate glass window or something to catch the bad guy. It's cute, good folding laundry show, City TV (Toronto station) plays it literally 24/7 on weekends

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

I strongly recommend watching the theme to Kommissar Rex

youtu.be/KTwiF8pRUUQ?...

Commissaris Rex[Kommissar Rex] intro

YouTube video by dennisguillaume1993

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

Hudson & Rex is an oddly dramatic Canadian police procedural adaptation of a lightly comedic Austrian cop show, Kommissar Rex

Poster for Kommissar Rex, the original Austrian version of the show

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 16d

I would like to take a moment to share with people the absolutely demented story of Hudson and Rex, a Canadian cop drama about a cop and his partner who happens to be a dog.

PLEASE STICK AROUND UNTIL THE END, I PROMISE THIS IS GOING PLACES YOU COULD NEVER EXPECT

The poster for Hudson & Rex showing Hudson, a cop, and his partner, Rex, who happens to be a German Shepherd

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 18d

that's when it's time to become THE DECIDERER

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 18d

It's contextual. The closer to a deadline or more junior the owner, the more likely I am to provide a concrete solution and say "let's please just do this". In earlier phases or with more senior team members, I would stay more high-level and define space to play or a particular problem to resolve.