Status Updates From Peyton Place

starting this valley-of-the-dolls sleazy adjacent so that i don’t read about 9/11 before bed

Good for Samuel.

I wonder if Grace Metalious knew the Trumps? 45 is so much like Rodney, and Leslie seems a lot like Fred.

I hate to admit it, but this is absolutely riveting. I normally dislike misery porn, but this has captured me in the same way that V.C. Andrews did when I was a teen. I don’t think I care to read the sequel, though. Enough is enough.