Episode #33

So this is it: The Beginning of the End.

We begin the strange and hazylazy final third of INHERENT VICE today.

Speaking of threes, today’s is the only scene in which the film’s three principles come together in real time—Doc Sportello, Bigfoot Bijornsen, and one not-so-missing Shasta Fay Hepworth—to kick off the film’s most difficult and inscrutable scene, one which we’ll explore in today’s episode AND the next (hey, give us a break, it’s a heavy sequence, ok?)…