Dimension 20: Fantasy High Junior Year Around episode four or five of Dimension 20’s third season of Fantasy High (aptly dubbed Junior Year), I thought to myself giddily, “If they keep this up, this will be their best season ever.” This meaning the intensity (and amount) of character pressure on each of the Bad Kids, […]
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We missed the month of April in our monthly recommendations, so here’s a quick post to catch-up on everything we might have recommended. Plus some early May knockouts. Plus a cultural shift or two. Cowboy Carter – Beyoncé Cowboy Carter dropped at the tail end of March, and it would’ve been my rec for April […]
your name. (2016) written and directed by Makoto Shinkai your name. begins in media res, meaning when Mitsuha attends school one day, we experience her confusion alongside her: her friends and family report that she acted strange the day before, though she has no memory why. It’s only when she fully body swaps with Taki, […]
“Change” by Big Thief I listened to the album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You by Big Thief for the first time earlier this month and its first track, “Change,” just hit the hardest for me. Adrianne Lenker’s voice is beautiful–lingering and haunting–as she contemplates what change looks like at different levels and […]
The Devil’s Plan, Netflix My favorite game show ever–and what I believe to be the best reality TV show ever made–is The Genius, a South Korean show that aired for four seasons in 2013-2015. The Devil’s Plan, a 2023 Netflix show, was created by the same showrunner and acts as the unofficial sequel and inheritor […]
EVERGREEN by PVRIS It’s hard to determine which PVRIS single is the best forerunner to their new album EVERGREEN. Was it “Monster,” which uses similar distorted guitars and vocals? Was it “My Way,” the lyrics and title of which make clear the manner frontwoman Lynn Gunn has chosen for her sound: “My my my way […]
The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner My April recommendation is the continuation of last month’s. I read the second book in the Queen’s Thief series, The Queen of Attolia. This book, just like the first, had me enthralled by storytelling, specifically the way that the author masterfully conceals information from the reader. I […]
Movie I’ve already talked this year about how much I love Nope, so I want to highlight a favorite from before the blog started: Everything Everywhere All At Once, written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. This movie rightly took spring of 2022 by storm: it is an explosion of talent and creativity, […]
Collection of singles by RAYE There’s only one thing I’ve obsessed over this month: four songs by the UK artist Raye, singles from her upcoming debut album My 21st Century Blues. The story behind the artist is that she’d been signed under music label Polydor for seven years, but they refused to debut an album […]
“Don’t Make It Harder On Me” Live on the Honda Stage by Chloe x Halle One of my favorite music videos of all time is a Chloe x Halle live performance of their song, “Don’t Make It Harder On Me,” on the Billboard YouTube channel. I’m a big fan of Chloe x Halle, and nowadays […]
