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Okay, first things first: The message is love?
Love isnt the hard-to-sell concept Dory and her new hippie friends seem to think it is.
And ego death is so vague as to be meaningless.
Thing is, were Dorys different selves ever all that different?
And how is reconciling your different selves really reconciling with ego death?
Arguably, your ego is even stronger now since all the selves have unionized.
It is cool that death taught her how to pick locks, though.
Fed up with not being able to spread her message, Dory escapes from the mental institution.
She somehow manages to bake banana bread dosed with sleeping pills, then steals an orderlys keys.
The jailbreak is almost undone by her squeaky shoes.
But why is she in real shoes, anyway, and not grippy socks?
This is a terrible hospital.
Dory busts out and goes on live on the orderlys purloined phone.
The people are feeling the message.
Well, almost everyone.
Played by Jeff Goldblum, he seems to basically be this worlds Elon Musk.
If Elon Musk was a deeply Jeff Goldblumy character.
Tunnel does a front-facing video explaining to his followers that he doesnt buy what Dorys selling.
He thinks its a further manifestation of her psychosis.
Nevertheless, Dory invites him to do some reflection and maybe try love.
Elliott interrupts Portia and Drews coitus to let them know Dory has escaped and did a front-facing manifesto.
Portia and Drew are still keeping their … whatever … from Elliott.
The gang reconvenes at Portias, where Dory has already broken in.
Apparently, enlightenment makes you a big fan of breaking and entering.
At the cafe, the gang is having difficulty swallowing Dorys latest transformation.
Shes asking the universe what we, as humans, did to deserve pasta.
Shes ministering to a day drunk.
Its too much, too soon for them.
After lunch, Dory demands they spend the day together because each moment is precious or some shit.
Would you believe that, for Dory, cherishing each precious moment involves breaking into yet another apartment?
This time its the one that she and Drew shared at the start of the series.
Its been completely transformed by its new yuppie owners, as Elliott remarks.
Imagine Elliott not seeing himself as a yuppie.
The quartet is drinking in the park at sunset, and almost everybody has been charmed by Dor.
Portia is 100 percent converted.
Dory says that shes never offered herself compassion until now, which is fucking rich.
But she does offer what seems like a genuine apology for the past few years of insanity.
Drew is still on the fence.
Before, Dory ran away from her misdeeds; now, shes just kinda over them.
Shouldnt there be some middle step, besides 37 seconds of flatlining?
Dory is staying with Portia now, apparently.
Theyve gone from best friends to enemies to sharing a toothbrush.
Portia swears fealty to Dory and admits to her relationship with Drew.
Guru Dory is all about free love, so thats all good.
She checks social media before bed, only to find that Tunnel Quinn is inviting her to collab.
Whether she means this death spiritually or literally is worryingly unclear.
With a techbro billionaire as a partner, literal mass death feels very, very possible.
Stray Pages From the Book of Dory
The bad sex Drew and Portia have.
Every time you think these two cant get sadder, they get sadder.
Speaking of Dorys phone (which she stole from the orderly), its an iPhone.
They should sue John Waters for shoddy merchandise.
I hope they come back and blow something up later.
