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Mar 31
24m 25s

Two Years Later

Ben Moorad & Farrah Khatib
About this episode

“Life here has always been relatively absurd. But the absurdity has now heightened and had a manic break, and we’re now living in the strange aftermath.”

In our Season 2 premiere, Farrah Khatib, Lyne Jradi and Rana Baghdadi explore why it’s taken us two years longer than we thought it would to make this season and what life has been like for us here.

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