Episode 18: Serial Experiments Lain

Content Warnings: Self-Harm, Suicide, Freud (Oedipal Complex)

Through the electric wires, a strange image appears on your TV… it’s Serial Experiments Lain the video game! We talk about the visual novel inflected adaptation? Retelling? of the classic anime. Discussion includes multimedia storytelling formats, Lain’s place in “franchise” narrative, what exact mental illnesses Lain has, and whether this is the spookiest game we’ve played yet.