Bodies

“We hereby conduct this post-mortem”

The body/post-mortem imagery frames the entire relationship as a corpse requiring forensic examination, the speaker and the public both trying to determine cause of death.

“Everyone's got bodies in the attic”

The domestic gothic of the entertainment industry, bodies in the attic as the Hollywood/celebrity version of closet skeletons, housed in a space associated with the hidden and decaying. Industry complicity figured as literal corpses; the collective plural implicates the whole system.