Pop Culture
- Kottke: Best not to know anything going into it… just watch all the way to the end.
- Daring Fireball: The less you know about this talk, the more you’ll enjoy watching it unfold. Just remarkably good. Trust me, watch it now, before anything about it is spoiled for you.
- Pixel Envy: Seriously – watch first, then click.
- The showrunner, Bill Lawrence, who was also behind Ted Lasso and Shrinking delivered again. The Ringer has a piece about him;
- Eve Stripling is easily one of the most compelling villains I’ve seen in a while;
- The soundtrack is spot-on and adds so much to the vibe;
- The “good guys” are all super charming and relatable;
- It’s based on a novel by Carl Hiaasen, and it feels like it shares the same DNA as the works of Laurent Chalumeau — both clearly influenced by the legendary Elmore Leonard.
Many people of my RSS feeds recommended Panic’s Cabel Sasser talk at XOXO 2024:
Watching it did not disappoint. 💻 × 🍿
I just finished watching Bad Monkey on Apple TV+. It was really good and I highly recommend it.
Some notes:
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Big thanks to Manton Reece for pointing me to this hilarious bit by John Mulaney about captchas.
It’s now up there with Michael McIntyre’s sketch on passwords in the hall of fame of tech-related comedy. 💻 × 🍿
I am a little late to start watching Malcom in the Middle in 2024, but I have spent the last couple of days by how good this show is. The last occurrence was the scenes where we see the world through Dewey’s eyes. 🍿
Reading about how Matthew Perry was addicted to ketamine before he died. Really sad. 🍿
Pierre Niney est assez épatant dans son passage à Hot Ones. 🍿
I love rewatching movies and TV shows. Some pass the re-watchability bar, many others fail. On the agenda lately, Barbie painfully failed. I had enjoyed the movie when I first saw it though. Ted Lasso passed with flying colors. I am in the middle of season 2, and it might even be better than the first time since you can see that narrative arcs are all instilled very early on. 🍿
This evening, i was forced to watch The Idea of You. At the beginning of the movie, before Solène enters Hayes’ trailer, I wrote this:
She’s gonna date a Moon. Then the age difference is going to be a problem. So they split up. But then they’re getting back together because love is the most important.
Bingo.
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L’étape, l’étape, oui mais c’est Pantani.
Vincent Delerm raconte que son père, Philippe, avait appelé L’Équipe pour proposer ce titre lors d’une victoire d’étape de Marco Pantani au Tour de France. 🍿
I had insomnia last night and I killed time imagining a new movie adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities. My cast would be Matthew Macfadyen for Sherman McCoy (because of the obvious similarities between the characters of Sherman McCoy and Tom Wambsgans, from Succession), Margot Robbie for Maria Ruskin, and Daniel Craig for Peter Fallow. 🍿