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Just another day in the life.

on tech layoff vlogs, AI-generated Buzzfeed quizzes, and blonde discourse.

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Mapp and Lucia Social

Early 20th-century reality tv.

on Mapp and Lucia, a treasured comfort program.

Prunella Scales and Geraldine McEwen in Mapp and Lucia, 1985. (BBC/YouTube)


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The Real Housewives of Tilling

Don Cheadle and Adam Driver in White Noise, 2022. (Wilson Webb/Netflix)

White Noise

White Noise tries to do too much.

reviews Noah Baumbach’s Netflix adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise.


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Baumbach’s disaster (movie)

Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan in She Said, 2022. (Jojo Whilden/Universal Pictures)

She Said

A review.

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All the things She Said

Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus Season Two, 2022. (Fabio Lovino/HBO)

Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus

A riff on The Tale of Genji.

helms our dispatch, recapping the latest news in digital culture. This week: anti-rich satire, Oscar-worthy box office flops, and Discord music recs. Plus, Nate Gallant reviews a new novel.

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 Eat the rich / Fiction rec / Ugly times

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Transnational television.

on how Korean dramas became an international streaming content pipeline and a form of soft power.

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The K-drama boom

Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal in Aftersun, 2022. (A24)


Aftersun

Aftersun and digital nostalgia.

on Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun, and the way it tackles how memory is affected by our own digital archives.

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