The Devil Within The Road Not Taken: REDUX - Part One
🎙️ THE DEVIL WITHIN
The Road Not Taken: REDUX
Part One of Two — In Support of the MGM+ Original Series “Let the Devil In”
In this REDUX edition of The Devil Within, host Branden Morgan revisits one of the most haunting chapters in the Tommy Sullivan story — The Road Not Taken.
This time, we take a deeper look at Robert Frost’s famous poem and how its quiet meditation on choice and consequence mirrors Tommy’s descent into darkness. What begins as literary analysis soon opens into a meditation on fate — the roads we choose and the ones that seem to choose us.
But this episode also widens the lens. Branden traces the real-world shadows behind Frost’s metaphor — through the Mafia’s violent history in North Jersey, a landscape where the mob once turned quiet woodlands into burial grounds. The same woods where, decades later, the legend of Clinton Road would take root.
The Road Not Taken: REDUX connects the poetry of Frost to the brutality of the underworld — and to the final, irreversible turn Tommy Sullivan made that winter night. A choice between curiosity and caution… faith and fear… light and shadow. A choice that could have led him anywhere — except home.
🕯️ In This Episode
• A literary and psychological breakdown of The Road Not Taken
• How organized crime shaped North Jersey’s hidden history of violence
• The parallels between Robert Frost’s symbolism and Tommy Sullivan’s fate
• A preview of next week’s conclusion — when the poem becomes prophecy
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