![]() Lily’s first five minutes at the Hanukkah party is just one long string of her bumping into people on accident and getting drinks spilled on her. ![]() Otherwise, I’m afraid to say, Jewishness was depicted in this episode as the bland addition of “oy vey!” or “bubbeleh” to normal dialogue, or, even worse, by Jews just being generally more rude than their non-Jewish counterparts. This song made me nostalgic for that pre-COVID bliss, and the band’s appearance was a bright spot of legible contemporary Jewish culture. At a Purim schpiel in Seattle a few years ago, me and every Jewish queer I knew danced until sunrise to this exact, uniquely wonderful kind of music. Michael Cyril Creighton as “Door Queen.” Alison Cohen Rosa/NetflixĪnother one of the few highlights of the episode was that the real-life band Golem plays a punk Klezmer song about Shacharit, Mincha, and Maariv (the three Jewish daily prayer services for morning, afternoon, and evening) in the background of the party. It’s not clear to me if the scene was intentionally lampooning the amazing oppression olympics we’re prone to as a people, but the experience of having to show your suffering cred to get in the door was deeply relatable. The funniest part of the episode, for me at least, was that in order to get into the party, Lily has to prove that her life is a “drag” to a Jewish drag queen bouncer. Her gay friends help her pick out a dress for the night and off she goes into the unfamiliar and uncomfortable world of Jewish nightlife. ![]() In episode three, the notebook correspondence leads Lily to a secret Hanukkah show in the basement of a Jewish bakery. Dash and Lily (L to R) Midori Francis as Lily and Glenn Mccuen as Edgar in Episode 103 of Dash and Lily. ![]()
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