The "Penelope" section of ULYSSES is, however, a bottle episode https://www.vulture.com/article/what-is-a-bottle-episode-meaning.html
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Leave the trauma. Take the cannoli. On season 2 of THE BEAR: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/arts/television/the-bear-review.html
Have a spoiler review of The Bear season 2 posting early tomorrow. [Checks watch] You've got plenty of time to finish!
On Pat Sajak. With Ed Grimley, Marjorie Taylor Greene and the yogic nature of game-show hosting. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/arts/television/pat-sajak.html
Local Man Rants on Internet https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/arts/television/tucker-carlson-twitter.html
Chris Licht's failure at CNN (good riddance) should be a sign to other news-org leaders that doing rhetorical backflips and pulling punches in order to suck up to a partisan audience that's been conditioned to despise you is neither good journalism, good business nor good career management.
But I doubt it will.
First impression of The Idol is it's a bold move for Sam Levinson to make a show about how annoying he finds it to work with intimacy coordinators
This is an amazing, devastating takedown: not just of the show but of an entire brand of meme-speak bienpensantism that passes for argument and criticism. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/arts/design/hannah-gadsby-brooklyn-museum-picasso.html
Oh also! If you don't like reading--Who does? It's for nerds--I also made a Succession TikTok, which makes some of the same points in a cool minute or so. https://www.tiktok.com/@nytimes/video/7237509370278366506
And Fitzgerald was right! In the original passage, he’s not saying that the very rich are innately superior, but that money has a transforming, warping, alienating effect. And in that same Kilimanjaro passage Hemingway ALSO says the rich are different: “The rich were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious.”
Anyway, Succession is a great story of how hyperwealth makes today's hyperrich hyperdifferent. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/arts/television/succession-finale.html
