Episode description
Episode description
“Off the Record” and “Chloe Does Lucifer” provide a pattern interrupt, but keep things moving forward in season 3.
Emily and Tracie find that “Off the Record” hits some satisfying storytelling notes, including big reveals, dramatic irony, and some meta-commentary about hell loops from within a hell loop. And while “Chloe Does Lucifer” gives us some touchstones of the titular characters’ relationship, it also makes Emily’s insides all twisty with second-hand embarrassment when Chloe tries to follow the advice of Luficer’s female alter-ego, Lucinda.
As so often happens in the sisters’ conversations, the path is circuitous and winding. In thinking about the Chloe’s characterization as the hardboiled, no-nonsense detective saddled with the wily and wild unorthodox partner, we realize the type is a regular–and regularly Guy-Girl-appreciated–version of copaganda, from Castle to Zootopia to X-Files. And that realization brings us to think about a similarly gritty but remarkably emotionally hard-working female character of our youth: Princess Leia.
The sisters laugh their way out of this week’s conversation as they reveal that while Avenue Q taught us the internet is for porn, for Tracie, Twitter is for Tom Ellis.
CW: this episode was recorded just one week after the Uvalde school shooting in which 19 children and 2 adults were murdered, and that backdrop colors the conversation about the culture’s attitude toward police and the cognitive dissonance that leads to conspiracy theories like Sandy Hook denial.
Originally published as a YouTube show with different theme music.
Our theme song is "Feral Angel Waltz" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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