This week, on part two, The New York Times Ashlee Simpson fan club — Mr. Caramanica, the pop music editor Caryn Ganz and the pop music reporter Joe Coscarelli — returns to continue the Simpson excavation and defense.

First comes an in-depth look at her MTV reality show, “The Ashlee Simpson Show.” That’s followed by an extensive listener mailbag, covering a wide range of topics, including Ms. Simpson’s relationship to the melodic hardcore of the mid-2000s, a comparison between her “Saturday Night Live” performance nightmare and that of Lana Del Rey a decade later and the Simpson family’s appeal to evangelicals.

Email your questions, thoughts and ideas about what’s happening in pop music to popcast@nytimes.com.

