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 […]
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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 […]
Close Read has been writing and recommending for a year now, and what is the one month we skipped? The one month that represents two of our writers (not a small number–that’s 66.66666etc of staff)? We were so focused on finding something different to write about for Pride that we never wrote, well, anything. (What […]
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, […]
A deep dive into the Bridgerton season 2 craze and Pride and Prejudice (2005). The recent release of the second season of the popular Netflix show, Bridgerton, has broken my brain. Based on the paperback romance novels by Julia Quinn, the show has audiences and entertainment news outlets hailing its modern tone embedded within the […]
