YMMV / Alice Isn't Dead

• Broken Base: The content warning at the start of episode three. A heads-up for more sensitive fans, or unnecessary and potentially spoileriffic? Alternatively, does its brief and blunt nature make the rest of the episode more tense and scary, while also fulfilling its purpose as a warning? ^note "Quick warning: This episode contains a fairly intense description of being physically attacked."
• Complete Monster:
  • The mysterious Police Woman, also known as Thistle, is a relentless hunter who hounds Keisha across the US to murder her for getting too close to the secrets of the Thistle Men and Bay & Creek Shipping. Along the way, the Police Woman leaves a trail of bloodshed and destruction, killing multiple people to take their vehicles, with Keisha stumbling upon her gruesome murder of a cop at one point. Upon capturing Keisha, the Police Woman reveals herself as a monstrous sadist who tries to force Keisha to "understand" everything, just so she can take cruel pleasure in her despair before killing her. Even after her supposed death, Thistle awakens later and reveals she is the one who creates the cannibalistic Thistle Men and sets them on the world to watch the carnage, gleeful about the murders and chaos she will continue to sow.
  • Lucy, a high-ranking member of Bay & Creek, is apparently a close friend of Keisha's wife Alice who cares for Keisha. In truth, Lucy is a willing participant of The Conspiracy to make others believe that her group are fighting the Thistle Men instead of working with them. Lucy betrays her own allies, letting them be murdered and directs the Thistle Men to claim more bodies before leading them to massacre Keisha, Alice and their group of survivors, showing no remorse in attempting to murder Alice and Keisha with her bare hands.
• Idiot Ball: The Thistle men and Bay & Creek Shipping decide to hunt the Narrator down when she no longer poses a threat more than once. First in "Go Home Again," then they send the not-policewoman after Keisha when she's bought into the whole "Bay & Creek are the good guys" guise. Sure Keisha kept digging, but the radio implies the woman started hunting her before then. Seeing as the entire point of the "two sides" con is to trick people into not looking too closely into the Thistle Men's affairs, one would think they'd let the con do its job with Keisha.
• Narm Charm: During “Go Home Again”, the narrator describes various sounds the Thistle Men make while they’re in her house. She actually verbalizes them, and they’re fairly silly noises like “whoop” and “yip”. But because of what we know about the Thistle Men, how dangerous they are, and the fact the Narrator is hearing the noises in extremely vulnerable times (like the middle of the night and when she’s taking a shower), it works incredibly well.
• Tough Act to Follow: Given that its parent show is easily the most popular fictional serial podcast out there, this was a natural reaction, though it seems assuaged after the release of the first episode, with fans being impressed by its growing story and characters. It's been described by some as returning to the original feel of Welcome to Night Vale before the Continuity Lockout got too bad.
• Paranoia Fuel: In Episode 3 "Nothing to See", the Narrator keeps thinking she hears someone in the trailer but when she checks there is nothing. That is until she stops and discovers that it was the Thistle Man the whole time.
  • There's also this bit from the "Police" Woman, who was in a gift shop at the time:
    "I followed Keisha here. She doesn't know that, of course... I'm not hiding. Keisha walked right past me- didn't know who I was, why would she? If Alice was here, maybe Alice could warn her. But of course, Alice isn't here. I am."
  • In Episode 20 - Your government has orchestrated a pretend war between two monstrously powerful sides, and they don't care if you die. Neither do your loved ones.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Keisha's love for Alice is apparent throughout the first two seasons, but the fact that Alice wouldn't say a single word about where she was or what she was doing (or even why she was doing it) can get on people's nerves- to the point that fans wondered why Keisha would even let Alice into her truck. Alice finally spills the whole story behind her disappearance to Keisha in Part 3, Chapter 2, and to the audience in the following chapter.