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 [email protected]

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