I’m sorry, but if you are presenting yourself as a spokesperson for a news program, or a movie reviewer, and you don’t know what a simple noun like Crawdad means, AND you don’t do any research, you are just a twit and should not expect any respect.
I usually watch Toronto TV (CTV), and they had a review recently of this movie. The review was not very good, but ended on a note of puzzlement. One young announcer turned to the young reviewer, and both agreed that the most unsatisfying thing about the flick was they never told what a "crawdad"...