Longing, Death, Form (Season 1 Sparknotes: Themes and Motifs)

Our Struggle

In the wake of their newfangled fame, Lauren and Drew look back at the themes and characters of Season 1 and attend to correspondence from fans and detractors.

Sample of Drew’s “intricate notes”:

-Cold open w/Drew’s senioritis suicide note

-game of pricks

--season 1 finale montage badinage

--things we can’t talk about; a final solution for goldendoodles; reddit pedants; lit critic lothario

--We respond to a subterranean missive from an anti- fan with extremist prose style

--Unmentionable word leads into discussion re non-rhotic safe space of dunkin donuts

--Lauren bans disquisitions then proceeds to deliver a disquisition on Shakespearean pedophile code Little Rascals (1994)

--Drew: Shakespearean endings make me feel eerie

--Closing: Lauren hopes for laced lidocaine, Buzzcocks “why can’t I touch it”

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SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE (SEASON TWO)