Season 4, Episode 4: Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity-Jig
Portia’s earnest act.
Dory and Paula, captives.
Search party gang – go!
Season 4, Episode 5: Doctor Mindbender
Reprogrammed Dory.
The truthy diorama.
Don’t ride with strangers.
Season 4, Episode 6: The Thoughtless Woman
Lilah, Stephanie.
Touring Sticky’s, arm in arm.
Rude selfie with Marc.
Exciting news! Skin Deep, my first mystery, has just been nominated for the 2021 Lefty for Best Humorous Mystery Novel, by Left Coast Crime. How cool is that? Now for the rest of my life, I can refer to myself as the “Lefty-Nominated Mystery Writer.” I’m gonna put that on my business card, if I had business cards.
Seriously — this is really super kind of these folks, because to be nominated in the same category with the likes of Carl Hiaasen and Ellen Byron is nothing short of amazing. Huge congrats to the rest of my awesome fellow nominees, Jennifer J. Chow, Cynthia Kuhn, and J. Michael Orenduff.
The winners will be announced on April 10, 2021!
Season 4, Episode 1: The Girl in the Basement
Dory in a trunk
Dory back at “home”, with Chip
The gang’s drunk kisses.
Season 4, Episode 2: Something Sharp
Portia playing Portia
Elliott flipping to Red
Andrew, tall white guy.
Season 4, Episode 3: Escape to Nowhere
Dory’s great escape
from window to car to Chip
Andrew back to Drew.
Ever have a dream you wish would never end? That’s what I experienced last night, when I was at some kind of a party with the actors of Search Party.
Search Party, if you didn’t know, is a TV show about to start its fourth season. I came to it very late, but a few weeks ago I got caught up. And because of the new season, the show’s been on my mind quite a bit. It’s one of the funniest shows out there, though as the seasons have gone on, the comedy has had company with a bit of the macabre. Which sometimes makes it even funnier? Anyway, I adore it, and I wish more people would see it.
I guess the dream took place at a restaurant, though I’m not really sure. All I know is that Dory, played by Alia Shawkat, was the one I spoke to first, and we sat down at a table. I told her how much I loved the show, and she gracefully accepted my praise with total sincerity, so this is more like the first-season Dory. Then Drew, played by John Reynolds, moped in – and he looked tired and didn’t look like he wanted to talk to anyone. Then Elliott, played by John Early, sat right down, and every time I tried to say something, he’d talk right over me! Initially this frustrated me greatly, but then I realized he was just being Elliott and then I was okay. And now here’s the strange part – Portia, played by Meredith Hagner, was not there and instead it was Anna Chlumsky, looking very much like her intense, brittle Veep character. Now Portia is my favorite character on Search Party so I just couldn’t quite understand why this was happening – like I knew I was dreaming and wanted Portia there, but no, I couldn’t make her appear.
And then we were all in a different restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, and everyone had a proper dish in front of them except for Drew, who had like a Lean Cuisine-type of meal, except it was way bigger, black and white, and had the insignia of the restaurant, so I guess it was more like a pre-packaged meal that they sold?
I’ll never know, as I woke up then (but not before Drew, hangdog as ever, let out a massive sigh of disappointment). But wow, it was so nice hanging out with my favorite foursome (even though Portia wasn’t there, she was, in spirit!).