"We traced the blood, it's coming from inside the boyfriend." Chef's kiss.

I'm never not going to love wounded vampires just draining blood from the surrounding area to heal. And yeah, a mortician having a sort of meet cute with a vampire is very awesome.

This IS a superhero story! "I can't be with you because I'm a vampire" is just like "oh, I can't be with the woman I love because I'm secretly Spider-Man!" lmao

I keep calling this show "Nick at night"

Oh man, Nick creepin on Natalie's neck with "metaphysical evil" brought back some bad Twilight memories.. as opposed to the good ones 😂

I really like the "face it tiger, you missed the jackpot" bit

Mildo, I feel like you should be informed. When you go ages without a video here, it kinda sucks. But having a video from you every day is simply wonderful. Not to say I want you to have a video every day, but I mostly want to say you're genuinely appreciated, and I find tremendous joy in your videos.

I have also had that scene of the blood going back into Nick stuck in my mind for almost 30 years. One of the cooler vampire powers in the show that required very little setup - just a good 'ol reverse some footage shot. Totally forgot most of the rest of this episode though. But it's hard to compete for memory space with Nick eating a pipe-bomb then hoovering up some morgue blood.

I'm past 40 and squinting at this going, you're telling me Natalie was supposed to be barely *30* here? I don't think she looks particularly old or anything! I'm just realizing that *everybody* in this is like ten years younger than I thought they were. I know beauty stuff has changed, etc, but I'm in the "just recently barely started remembering to use moisturizer" camp and I can't look in the mirror and understand how I'm markedly older than Donald Schanke.

4:20: He was going through a phase. It's less embarrassing than the one he went through after Twilight came out.

Oh thank goodness you're back! You had me scared . . . But not in the normal Cat way . . . In the . . . nevermind

The Mary Jane deep cut was lovely and felt like it was just for me because I imagine none of the rest of your audience read that original comic. 🥰

Nick and Natalie are melodramatic in the flashback!!

This series you're doing is great, and I'm excited to eventually sit down and watch the show itself!

I feel like i should watch the show at this point. I love every episode youve done

I thought I was the only one that noticed in the flashback when Nick first met Natalie he was talking more vampirey like if that makes sense it sounded like the actor was trying to do a Dracula European accent and I was like why is Nick talking like that it threw me off when I first watched this episode 😂

Been binge watching this series for the past 2 weeks and Season 1 is the best one for so many reasons, the main one being the lovely and seductive Janette. Can't get enough of her. Those short tête á tête moments she has with Nicolas inside her nightclub with the goth music playing in the background are must repeat viewings. This is one of my favorite episodes of season 1. Heartbreaking to see Natalie realize how her and Nick can't be together and struggling with her feelings about that. Freaking love this series.

Your narration is so so funny

I love this so much. Thank you for all of the episodes so far.

you're such a champ at ear-worm one liners. you know, the DNA, *is* coming from inside the boyfriend!!!

"too ontologically evil for you" is hilarious and also such a hot thing to say

Hunky nosebleed floored me! Thanks, really needed the out loud laugh ^_^

Mildred, have you never heard of bodies needing a blood transfusion before? Also, "control blood"? I don't think that's how control groups work. What variable would this "control blood" even be controlling for?

So wait. Does this episode establish that Nick took a nap at a crime scene or just slept in a pile of bodies, the cops found him bagged him and processed him, he slept the entire way to the morgue, and then when he woke up and became special friends with the medical examiner he just walked upstairs to the police station grabbed a badge off someone's desk and said he was a homicide detective now? There are some holes in this origin story flashback. Like how none of the cops realized one of the dead bodies from the big massacre scene was suddenly up and claiming to be a cop.

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Almost done. Hope you've enjoyed doing this series so far! I think Nick was doing that voice in 1990 to try to intimidate her maybe?

Wait so was he a cop when they met or did he BECOME a cop because they met? Like, there's unethical levels of vampire hypnotism either way quite frankly, but I really wanna know.

who was supposed to tell me Schanke is also Carl the Janitor from the Breakfast Club because I had no friggin idea

This does not appear on video list or in new videos subscription feed for me.

A Paul reference!?!? damn

Did you release 2 of these at once? I've got 2 in my recommends that say they were published 25 minutes ago.

Mildred i love you but you uploaded these in the wrong order im weeping

Forever Knight uses violence against women as a plot crutch?? Say it ain’t so!

A common pattern I see is downplaying female characters for the sake of the main character or other male characters. Something still seen to this day, and not even less pronounced than this show.

Weird note: I've done some hypnotisms (was learning it out of curiosity) and while I normally talk funny, I did find trying to do that made you pay so much attention to what you were saying and it's possible implications and how to give it useful weighting, that I *talked even more funny* for a bit afterwards. I am confident none of the writers thought of this, but there's a similar effect when you're trying to convince people of something that might have influenced this, and it's wild that it um resonated.

I was kinda hoping since she's characterized as the smart character that we'd get to see her outwit the serial killer. But instead they have her trip so hard she knocks herself out and it was so overdone I sorta laughed a little ... 😔

Well, now I'm confused. Remembering someone's birthday is objectively a good thing, but the show has established that anything Skanke does is stupid and wrong by default. Forever Knight can't go changing the rules now.

Regarding the 'sensitive/sentimental' type; I *highly* recommend "Coroner" by Thomas T. Noguchi. In it, he reflects on his most famous cases (Monroe, Tate/LaBiana, Janis Joplin ect), one of the major stand-outs is how he details that, despite being surrounded by feds and experts, he had to make the "highly unusual" request to cover the patient's face during the M.E of Robert Kennedy so he (Noguchi) could keep his tears at bay. It's explained why this particular case had such a strong effect on him, but I wouldn't be able to do justice to the man's words. I also recommend this to anyone interested in forensics, deep dives in high profile cases (some as recent as John Belushi), and of course the field itself. --- This isn't a criticism of Mildred or the points made in that section of the video; it just made me think of a polar opposite situation.

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