Evergreen | Vale Four | S4E18 | GE45 | Season Finale

I know exactly what you are.  You’re trade.

Evergreen is the finale of DDS’s fourth season, Vale Four. Every DDS season looks at something through the lens of desire horror. That means it asks why we want unsettling things.

This season looked at ads. Each linked set of stories, or cycle, was about an advertising phenomenon. We did earworms, facial telemetry, microtargeting, and gaming. We wrapped up with astroturfing: fake grassroots that makes it unclear what’s real.

The whole season followed a corporate sabotage plot. One faction tried to tank Vale Four before a massive IPO.

In the finale, we’ll find out if that whole plot was real or theater. You have to listen to find out that answer. I can give you some hints, though.

Yes and no.

If you want to fully decode this, check the cycle finales: Sinker, The River, Bullseye, and Sublimate.

These texts matter: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, any Greek myth guide, A Star Is Born, and The Lesser Key of Solomon

It was a dark romance the whole time. It’s on you to figure out who was romancing whom.

A post-credits sequence with the Muppettes explains the show’s transition into monster romance.

State Of The Dream

The Deep Dream State is NSFW. It’s certainly rated R, containing sexual language and references. The website and trailer are PG, as is the Season 4 opener Refrain. That’s all by design; we believe in intimate storytelling but not blindsiding.