The Best Years of Our Lives (Spoiler: It’s Not the Yearbook, It’s the People)

Sisters Michelle and Kimberly look back at the “best times” of their lives and try to reverse-engineer the magic. Not in a woo-woo way. In a nerd way. Like charting life on a Gantt chart or mapping out major life events on a timeline for church and alcohol addiction treatment purposes that get uncomfortably honest, fast.

They revisit childhood summers at their permissive California grandparents’ house (donuts, game shows, no parents, and yes… a funeral for a shredded fan). Then they jump to why late high school hit so hard: drama/choir weirdos, cliques, the quad, the quarry lore, and a choir director (Ms. G.) who basically raised teenagers—and got them singing with Rosemary Clooney.

They hit other peak chapters too: a Berkeley neuroscience PhD, a semi ...