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[Raises hands to absorb spirit energy] Give me your strength, people, ’cause we in the season finale — perhaps the series finale, if producers are to be trusted — of Big Little Lies. So, how’d this go down? If you need a “previously on,” see any of the previous Big Little Lies recaps and meet me back here in Monterey by the beach. [T’Challa voice] Evacuate the city, engage all defenses, and get this man a sunhat. Let’s get into it muhfuckas ’cause there’s a lot to say on the little that happened in “I Want to Know.” We pick up on yet another flashback to the day it all happened. That shit plays on repeat like “Call Me Maybe” in 2013, and I’m fucking exhausted. If you asked me a year ago, I’d have said I could watch Perry get merked every day for the rest of my life. Big Little Lies done called my bluff and now they just need to switch tracks on their 2013 playlist to fucking “Let it Go!” Anyway, Celeste replaying that night in her head again followed by replaying every other body she caught the “Sexual Healing” way. Since memories aren’t enough, she pulls out the external hard drive with a terabyte of YouPerry videos just scrolling through the greatest hits, bookmarks, archives, all that shit. She on pages 23 of her search results when she’s aghast at what she finds, ’cause it’s a video of Perry’s abuse although we won’t discover that until due time in the courtroom so for now we left on the Jafar tip not knowing what she found.
All over town there are kids worried about t…
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Jordan Calhoun
Jordan Calhoun is a writer in New York City. His forthcoming debut book "Piccolo Is Black" is a celebration of the common adaptations we made while non-diverse pop culture helped us form identities. He holds…
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