You might think something weird is going on in Washington, D.C., and you’d be right, at least about the D.C. of new series BrainDead (and probably also about the D.C. of our own reality, which BrainDead aims to satirize with skewers for both sides of the aisle.) Among the weirdness in BrainDead’s Washington: The Cars song “You Might Think” gets played a lot. Laurel (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is hearing it everywhere — the ringtones of Hill staffers, the radio, the computer of the chief of staff to Laurel’s senator brother — and it leaves her a little creeped out. “The ’80s are back,” senator aide Gareth (Aaron Tveit) explains away. What viewers know is that the folks on the Hill listening to “You Might Think” on repeat have all had their brains eaten by alien bugs. What viewers don’t know quite yet (three episodes into...
- 6/28/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
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