You · Season 2, Episode 1, "A Fresh Start"
Love's welcome gift: Play It As It Lays
Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti)
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What it tells you
At the end of the season-two premiere, Love gives Joe, who is hiding in Los Angeles as Will, a copy of Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays as a welcome to town.
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Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion · 1970 · novel
Didion's 1970 novel follows an actress drifting through Hollywood who can't find a reason to keep playing along. Love hands it to a man hiding under a fake name, in a city built on them.
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