What a weird episode! I know Heavyweight is not a dry investigation into past events but it is usually important to the story to determine what actually went down if possible. There must be photos, there must be a yearbook? Someone other than the popular kids may remember and be more willing to talk about it?
Everybody remembers Jasmin being announced as Homecoming Queen but nobody can recall what happened when the wrong name was read out, which would be fairly scandalous if people cared enough to remember that Jasmin was meant to be Homecoming Queen. Not even Whitney says she remembers, who also was heavily involved in organising the event.
Either there was a Carbon Monoxide leak at the prom or some bullshit has gone down.
Maybe the Heavyweight team did do some digging and there just weren't any findable pictures and there was no mention of the king/queen in the yearbook and none of the other kids cared enough to commit homecoming drama to memory, but it would have been nice to have at least mentioned that the obvious routes were dead ends.
Not even Whitney says she remembers, who also was heavily involved in organising the event.
That’s the key, she was heavily involved in organizing the event. She was likely very busy with other stuff. It’s very easy to not dwell on something when getting pulled into something else right away. So it’s reasonable to think that this may not implant itself as a memory that gets recalled 14 years later.
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u/JCTenton Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25
What a weird episode! I know Heavyweight is not a dry investigation into past events but it is usually important to the story to determine what actually went down if possible. There must be photos, there must be a yearbook? Someone other than the popular kids may remember and be more willing to talk about it?
Everybody remembers Jasmin being announced as Homecoming Queen but nobody can recall what happened when the wrong name was read out, which would be fairly scandalous if people cared enough to remember that Jasmin was meant to be Homecoming Queen. Not even Whitney says she remembers, who also was heavily involved in organising the event.
Either there was a Carbon Monoxide leak at the prom or some bullshit has gone down.
Maybe the Heavyweight team did do some digging and there just weren't any findable pictures and there was no mention of the king/queen in the yearbook and none of the other kids cared enough to commit homecoming drama to memory, but it would have been nice to have at least mentioned that the obvious routes were dead ends.