Evil, Bodies, & My Shark Mouth (& a Sale)

a chronicle of dysfunction

Before we get to my shark mouth…

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I received a DM from a dear human through Instagram. Apparently, the showrunners of the critically acclaimed Paramount+ show “Evil” had posted a deleted scene on Twitter. My second book was prominent in that scene, which you can see above—in it, a psychologist studies The Collected Schizophrenias (front and center, and much larger than I was anticipating) before the show’s villain appears and interrupts his reading.

The episode is “How to Slaughter a Pig.” Thank you to Michelle and Robert King for planting my essay collection in there; it may be a deleted scene, but I remain tickled pink that it ever appeared at all.

In one interview about Season 2 of “Evil,” Robert King said: “There’s some things you could blame on certain medications. We read this book, The Collected Schizophrenia, which is a lovely book by a woman [Esmé Weijun Wang] who was very much high-functioning in her day job but seeing hallucinations and had trouble with medication. There are scientific and psychological explanations, but again, Michelle and I are on different parallel tracks on this. I do believe in the supernatural. And you still don’t.”

“How to Slaughter a Pig” includes an intense birth scene in which what might be considered the Antichrist is born as the result of a complex experiment. A woman’s body is used as a vessel, nothing more and nothing less, to bring evil into the world. (Not, actually, a novel concept.)