Image: Logo for Alice Isn’t Dead: a design of a truck with the mirror image of a stylized skull driving on a black road with an orange sky and yellow sun behind the truck”
Click here to read my review of part 1.
Keisha, our favorite truck driver, is back in part 2 of an anticipated three seasons of Alice Isn’t Dead.
This season focuses less on Keisha’s anxiety and more on a series of events as she traverses the country: she encounters another Thistle Man, tries to solve the mystery of Sylvia’s mother’s death, and keeps encountering a hamburger shop called Praxis. In this season we also encounter another character, voiced by Roberta Colindrez, who seems to be stalking Keisha.
The mystery of Alice and Thistle aside, what I really loved about this season was the descriptions of driving across the U.S. The sign for Anaconda Opportunity is real, by the way, and here’s some photographic evidence courtesy of my partner:
The design of the place was as clean and interchangeable as any other restaurant in the strip mall. But there was the sign in the shape of a burger. The sign said, “PRAXIS”.
The inside was a simple counter and a couple tables with plastic chairs. The wall was papered in comic book covers, although I didn’t recognize any of the characters. “Tiptoe Woman”, one was called. Another called “The Incredible Man who Cries.” “I might get a chicken sandwich,” Sylvia said. “Is that weird, getting chicken at a burger place?”
Part 3, the final series, is scheduled to come out in 2018. Support Part 3 (the final part) on Patreon.
Contains stalking, violence (there are warnings on those episodes), memory loss/altered memories, police encounters, a surprisingly disturbing description of the impending Pacific Northwest megaquake in mini-episode 2.
Listen on iTunes, YouTube, LibSyn, or the Alice Isn’t Dead homepage. Transcripts available here.
The Lobster Dance 
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