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Teenage girls collude through song; music is a secret code, a signal, a warning.
This song, this goddamn perfect song.
Or, in Mistys case, the feminine urge to take the Red Cross Babysitter Training Course twice.
Episode One:Pilot
The first episode is like the best mixtape in the world.
Youve got Salt-N-Pepas Shoop, Holes Miss World, Snows Informer.
Looking through the flames, she sees teenage Misty but just for a moment.
A song about a mother who drowns her child?
Glory Box, by Portishead, is one of the best drops in the series.
Titus Andronicus walked so Shauna could run.
The foreboding is palpable.
These womens demons are as firmly planted in the present as they were in the past.
She and Kevyn discuss how Kurt Cobain wanted Dinosaur Jr. front man J. Mascis to join Nirvana.
Dreams get diverted, though, as they do when Nats dad bursts in and kills the moment.
choreographed dance to Montell Jordans delightfully cheesy This Is How We Do It.
They are still just girls, with the same silly interests and need to be part of a community.
But this is one of those songs where, if you know, you know.
Instead, Travis is dead and Nat is haunted by memories of their time in the woods.
That sound you thought you heard echoing in the wind?
Tanya Donnellys voice is so pretty, but it sounds like shes singing in a storm of sound.
Its perfect march music for the revelers, who have no idea what theyve just stepped into.
Sure, its Top 40 fluff, but it resonates for the girls when they really need it.
Forget the whispers and sideways glances that follow them.
These women have earned every moment of that strut more than their peers will ever know.
