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The feature debut of director Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter, comes to Netflix this weekend. We'll be covering it on the show soon, and the cast -- including Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, and Ed Harris -- is only one of the reasons it's well worth your time.
I have been enormously enjoying Susan Orlean's On Animals on audiobook. It collects pieces she's written about animals who work, who provide company, who are loved, who are valued, who need help, who need medicine -- it's a book full of dogs and donkeys, mules and bunnies.
It's a pretty quiet time in debuts of new stuff, just because so many people are taking a big deep breath over the holidays. (I hope you are able to, at least a little.) So if you're looking for a New Year's Eve or New Year's Day watch, maybe check out something you missed this year. You've seen lots of picks from the PCHH team; there are plenty of lists out there to give you a place to start. The folks at Vulture are great! |
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On Monday, Aisha talked to Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings from For Colored Nerds and critic Cate Young about the end of Insecure.
Aisha also wrote an appreciation of Insecure and of the fact that the romantic "will they or won't they" plots were never the show's true magic.
On Tuesday, Stephen and our pal Danielle Kurtzleben dove into Don't Look Up.
On Wednesday, we shared the first part of our annual predictions/resolutions cycle by looking back at last year's guessing game and trying to find a crystal ball.
And on Thursday, Aisha, Glen, Stephen and I reflected on our pop culture resolutions from this year and set our intentions for the one ahead.
As I've done for a good number of years now, I rounded up a list of 50 wonderful things, large and small, from the year in pop culture. |
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| Every week on the show, we talk about some other things out in the world that have been giving us joy lately. Here they are: |
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