How a TV Writer Escaped Heartbreak Through Escape Rooms

You know, it felt crazy to be earnestly, “Escape rooms really saved my life.” But they did. I mean, I turned it into a bit, but they did. The funniest one I did is I did “Zombie on a Chain,” which involves a live actor just alone as a pregnant woman and I’m working — — Well you have to describe that one. You can’t say “Zombie on a Chain” like I know what “Zombie on a Chain” is. So what was happening in “Zombie on a Chain”? Well, it turns out it’s very self descriptive. — Sure. There’s an actor who is a zombie on the chain at one end of the room, and every five minutes that goes by the chain loosens up about an inch. And if the zombie gets you, the game is over. So it’s not just time. It’s like if the zombie can reach you and attack you. It’s like scary. It’s like haunted house x escape room type thing. Exactly. And this I was about eight months pregnant maybe eight months and a week. Oh my god! And truly, I scared the live actor more than he scared me. He really was worried about, like, sending me into labor. So he was like, “Rawr.” — Like really not giving it his all. And at one point he was like, “You’re doing okay!” And I’m like, “Don’t break character! Don’t break character! I paid for this.” Well, did you did you solve it before the zombie — Oh, I did, I did. Even then, it just is such a nice sense of accomplishment. — Yeah It is meaningless. You’re in a totally made up story in a totally made-up land. But it feels so good to solve something.