[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for “Dare Me” Episode 5, “Parallel Trenches.”]The opening of each episode of “Dare Me” is its own pearl, presenting the audience with a mystifying piece of visual information that hints at where things might be heading.
In the case of Episode 5, that image is a floating tooth, drifting — as some of the series central characters are, too.
Unsettling in isolation and horrific in context, it’s just one of the many storytelling levels that this USA series has discovered for itself.“I think we felt freer to be more abstract and surreal as it goes,” series co-creator and novel author Megan Abbott told IndieWire.
“This show has gone somewhat into this sort of unconscious state, with dreams and the different POVs.
It gives you a little more freedom to play.
We’re all David Lynch fans among the room and the crew and everybody, so we would often talk about our David Lynch moment.
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