Before long, she finds a seedy job doing about the only thing she’s qualified to do, working from midnight to eight in a nondescript office building. The rest of that first season is equally dramatic. She has no money, no plan, a suitcase, and a complete lack of self-regard. She cuts off all contact with her family, her friends, or anyone who thought they knew her. We’re talking about the old-fashioned Internet, in 1994-a 2400-baud modem or some such. She runs away to Arizona by way of a trip to San Francisco with a much older man she has only corresponded with via the Internet.
About ten days before the start of junior year, my character gets on a plane and abandons everything. She makes a spectacular mess.Ī lot happens in the pilot. With no ability to cope, and no way to ask for help, the main character-my character, me-is completely crazy. The show would open deep in my lost year-the year I drop out of college and disappear.
A television show about my twenties would follow the life of a girl who is lost, literally and figuratively.
