Very special episode of Agitator today! We have Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Wren Collier on to talk about 1998's Serial Experiments: Lain.

We talk: theme songs, prescient art, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Persona 2 vs Lain, is Lain the e-girl prototype?, Amelie syndrome, suicide galaxy brain, is Lain real?, sinister video games, Roswell aliens, Michael Jackson as God, MJ-12, Lain = The Invisibles?, Mysterious Skin, Whitley Strieber, Greg Araki, Cronenberg is the moment, theater walkouts, late-90s anti-Christian religiosity, killing god through paradox, who is God?, favorite Lain outfit, Lain’s forelock, Lain as a dream machine, Mobile Suit Gundam, social terror, masks are fake, masturbation and porn, being a cryptolib, anti-anonymity, not being raped by Jack, archetypes of the future, Digimon Tamers, and S. Craig Zahler movies.