S02E21 - The Best Friend (Fear Street)

Andy and Alyssa return to the Fear Street series with R.L. Stine's controversial tome The Best Friend (1997). Along the way, they discuss My Cousin Rachel; man hands; Brian de Palma; memory lapses; mirroring; gendered exercise; Love is Blind; Guns n' Roses; hysteria; queer villains; Single White Female; Nella Larsen’s Passing; All About Eve; hair twins; Basic Instinct; Dead Ringer; the penultimate season of The L Word; Mulholland Drive; Gothika; Dollhouse; figures from your sordid past; The Gift; bullies; Teju Cole’s Open City; Street Fighter; The Yellow Wallpaper; Baby Teeth; Rosemary’s Baby; The Stepford Wives; non-naturalistic dialogue; being hung up on your ex; My Best Friend’s Wedding; Scott Pilgrim; Forgetting Sarah Marshall; parental disapproval; Romeo and Juliet; Pet Sematary; Twilight; Gilmore Girls; protagonists with two less hot friends; Nancy Drew; unclear motives; Leatherface; Ils; House of 1000 Corpses; nominal destiny; and Christmas stories. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com