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to watch: finish final episode of euphoria s02; gossip girl season 02; final season of killing eve
shows · ongoing
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always reading. wolf hall by hillary mantel (nov 14.)
books · ongoing
knives out: glass onion
2022
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just keep breaking things. we need more modern day mystery movies, is all.
films · Dec 30, 2022
gossip girl
season 02
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it's a good hate-watch that only gets good when they lean into the drama rather than the camp.
shows · Dec 11, 2022 – Dec 29, 2022
the sex lives of college girls
season 02
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more freshman year shenanigans, more churn and burn college plots
shows · Nov 22, 2022 – Dec 15, 2022
the white lotus
season 02
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arancini only costs $1 in sicily
shows · Dec 8, 2022 – Dec 11, 2022
trust exercise
susan choi
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three shifting povs, telling conflicting stories that are all about the same thing
books · Dec 7, 2022 – Dec 10, 2022
falling for christmas
2022
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the return of lindsay lohan with a poor man's lumberjack in chord overstreet
films · Dec 9, 2022
yesterday
2019
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a half comedy that wants so badly to be a romcom. this is a world without the beatles, and it would be a much more interesting cinematic world if it interrogated questions of culture and society: is it better to live with imitations of greatness than to be absent of the masterpieces, after all? how might we continue as a society, absent the indelible impact of our greatest works?
films · Dec 7, 2022
the crown
seasons 01 – 02
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claire foy shines as a young queen. plus, i'm in my matt smith era.
shows · Nov 5, 2022 – Nov 28, 2022
better luck tomorrow
2002
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lean into the black comedy of studying for standardized exams
films · Nov 27, 2022
last night in soho
2021
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neon horrors, girl with dead dreams. london in the 60s was something else. dangerous, incandescent.
films · Nov 24, 2022 – Nov 25, 2022
this is how you lose the time war
amal el-mohtar + max gladstone
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books · Nov 21, 2022
pride and prejudice
2005
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the hand flex ™️
films · Nov 20, 2022
the idiot
elif bautman
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a girl begins her freshman year at harvard and hopes for transformation.
books · Sep 24, 2022 – Nov 6, 2022
house of the dragon
season 01
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this is going to hurt like hell. (and it did, i can’t believe i let the asoiaf universe do this to me once again). also; the rhaenyra and daemon thing is emma and mr. knightley and i will not comment on it any further.
shows · Oct 10, 2022 – Oct 23, 2022
sweet home alabama
2002
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more reese witherspoon in romcoms
films · Oct 22, 2022
midnights
taylor swift
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midnights paces back and forth on the wooden floorboards. taylor doesn’t reflect as much as she stews; hears the quiet of her memory claw itself to the surface like white noise. like the scratches the needle has to persist before music lifts from the vinyl. like that thumping bass from another room, relentless and tenebrous. like it wants something from you, and it couldn’t get enough in the daylight hours.
audio · Oct 20, 2022 – Oct 21, 2022
industry
season 02
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mean girls and mean stocks
shows · Sep 26, 2022 – Oct 7, 2022
on earth we're briefly gorgeous
ocean vuong
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scintillating poetry-prose as a boy grows up
books · Oct 3, 2022
the bear
season 01
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the intoxicating thing about watching shows set in back of the house kitchens
shows · Sep 17, 2022 – Sep 18, 2022
piranesi
susanna clarke
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if dark academia's the secret history twice-removed were written by madeline miller
books · Sep 17, 2022
partner track
season 01
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legally blonde for asian american girls whose childhood was the lsat study montage
shows · Sep 10, 2022 – Sep 13, 2022
you deserve each other
sarah hogle
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the lovers to enemies to friends to lovers again trope
books · Sep 9, 2022 – Sep 10, 2022
never have i ever
season 03
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the time jump
shows · Aug 14, 2022 – Aug 15, 2022
moonlight
2016
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films · Aug 1, 2022
the summer i turned pretty
season 01
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a coastal granddaughter love triangle, caught between two brothers. the soundtrack could hardly be more perfect if it tried—taylor, bleachers, olivia, phoebe, carly. *and* bon iver. plus billie and ariana just for kicks. this show has confirmed that i have officially aged out of the ya romance demographic. but jenny han's production gives the series such a soft, serene touch. it's so loveable.
shows · Jun 18, 2022 – Jun 22, 2022
book lovers
emily henry
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imagining a future wherein they are a publishing power couple taking over the city by storm
books · Jun 12, 2022 – Jun 13, 2022
top chef
season 19
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the chefs are back and they're kookier (more talented) than ever. this is a very likeable cast.
shows · Mar 19, 2022 – Jun 4, 2022
funny you should ask
elissa sussman
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wonderful structure: celebrity interview, non-linear timeline, interwoven exercepts.
books · Jun 1, 2022
circe
madeline miller
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can’t believe i finally finished this stupid book
books · May 17, 2022 – Jun 1, 2022
harry's house
harry styles
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curated domesticity envelopes this album; and make no mistake, he wrote this in the cozy blanket of indoor quarantine vibes. i have learned one truth from the most recent harry styles album cycle: he is not a good lyricist. but that’s okay. he has a great voice and an even better production team; amplified by lots of suave charisma and rocker flair that carry his sound further than other contemporary young male artists.
audio · may 2022
disorientation
elaine hsieh chou
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i need to stop recommending this book to all my friends. burnt-out phd student, cultural appropriation.
books · Apr 30, 2022 – May 15, 2022
dance fever
florence + the machine
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there's a track called "dream girl evil" on the album
audio · May 13, 2022
moonshot
2022
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i'm genuinely sorry i watched this: lana condor radiates whenever she helms films (with a gift for endearingly awkward comedic timing). and cole sprouse is boring.
films · May 9, 2022
brooklyn nine-nine
season 08
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this show has been a rollercoaster, but still has so much heart. it's been through a lot, from near cancellation at the end of season 05, to a surprise revival and reckoning after the past two years. it ends in a resoundingly satisfying way.
shows · Apr 30, 2022
the king's man
2021
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this movie is, at lukewarm best, world war ii spy thriller fanfiction for men. and shots of ralph fiennes looking rather sad.
films · Apr 20, 2022 – Apr 30, 2022
the eyes of tammy faye
2021
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there is an above-average level of singing in this film, but jessica chastain and andrew garfield are charming in this dramatized biopic of a christian tv network power-couple.
films · Mar 4, 2022 – Apr 30, 2022
everything everywhere all at once
2022
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life feels like a bagel when it ought to be googly eyes. after i left the theatre, i frantically wrote some things down in a journal and it felt like i'd been hollowed out. scooped out all the melancholy and trauma and self-loathing. like a bagel.
films · Apr 14, 2022
bridgerton
season 02
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someone said the enemies to lovers trope but make it a period piece; pride and prejudice but far more yearning and scandal. the second season of bridgerton delivered, in that, the only tolerable characters in this series are kate and anthony. that's it.
shows · Mar 26, 2022
pop song
larissa pham
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books · Mar 20, 2022
lore olympus
season 01 - 1.5
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spring broke free. in an hellenic urban fantasy, we meet hades and persephone again in vibrant blue-pink hues. it’s an inspired illustration of the pantheon with a modern twist. consequently, i'm back on a greek mythology
books · Mar 13, 2022 – Mar 14, 2022
inventing anna
season 01
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the scammable american dream of manhattan’s elite
shows · Mar 10, 2022 – Mar 13, 2022
euphoria
season 02
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the only thing i will remember about season two is that lexi and fezco finally get a plot (and something tragic probably happens).
shows · Jan 10, 2022 – Feb 27, 2022
beach read
emily henry
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don't trust a goodreads rec, because this book was bad. the main characters had sad backstories, but no personality. can't tell you anything about them that wasn't written outright in first-person narration.
books · Jan 28, 2022 – Jan 29, 2022
encanto
2022
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márquez met miranda and put this on disney+. a spirited musical with the best of magical realism: generational trauma, narcissistic matriarchs, and anthropomorphic homes. and not talking about bruno.
films · Jan 21, 2022
six: the musical
2020
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historemix is a real word now.
audio · Jan 21, 2022
eternals
2020
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beautifully shot, but decidedly middling in story. gemma chan was perfectly cast as sersi; the inevitable reunion of two bereaved stark brothers; and some genuinely wonderful celebrity casting.
films · Jan 16, 2022
tick, tick... boom!
2021
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in this bonafide musical, we continue to sing praises for andrew garfield.
films · Dec 28, 2021 – Jan 9, 2022
the hating game
2020
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the book, the hating game, is a masterpiece in the romcom genre. this adaptation reminds me of how nuanced and gorgeous sally thorne's book was: it's characters vivid, likeably unlikeable, and absolutely magnetic in how they play off each other. however; this film gets most of the setup of the leads, but complete misses the mark in the long course of rising action. the back two-thirds of this is * not * great however it is still a little charmed. the set design is probably the best part.
films · Jan 4, 2022
harry potter 20th anniversary: return to hogwarts
2021
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quaint british nostalgia, personified. some highlights: the golden trio are a little family, the media is still on the emma watson/tom felton train, and what a gift was it to grow up alongside some of the greatest english thespians (the moment where the kids were learning to be people; and figuring out what it meant to do this acting gig at the same time)
films · Jan 2, 2022