The Afterparty

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Growing up, movies and TV always made high-school reunions seem so great.

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I thought thered bedance numbers.Neck-shivvings to a New Wave groove.Adorable geriatric party crashers.

Will we see a homicide depicted through Busby Berkeleyesque musical numbers?

Cue the half-tempo violin version of Maneater.

Inside the house, the stragglers from Xaviers after-party wait to be interrogated.

1 and Ned (Tiya Sircar and Kelvin Yu).

1 goal for the evening is to touch Bretts ex-wife, this is upsetting news.

Who knew that vice-principalling would match my skill set exactly?

Aniq and Zoe wind up on the football bleachers, drinking and reminiscing about their halcyon chemistry days.

This is way too on the nose.

Killers dont proclaim that theyre going to kill everyone midway through the seriess pilot.

Its just not done.

Brett, youre innocent; Im calling it right now.

Luckily for Zoe, he passes out, only to awaken covered in skis and Solo cups.

But there is no Xavier.

No Zoe, either.

Is there a market for PoochKicks?

Im actually on an all-bread diet right now.

Same, Zoe, same.

But sometimes the obvious pick is the right one.