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“Too Much” Remixes the Rom-Com In her new Netflix show, Lena Dunham revitalizes the genre by delving into her characters’ pre-meet-cute pasts—and all the attendant emotional baggage.

With its quicksilver shifts and sneaking sweetness, the experience of watching “Too Much” feels a lot like falling in love, @inkookang.bsky.social‬ writes.

“Too Much” Remixes the Rom-Com In her new Netflix show, Lena Dunham revitalizes the genre by delving into her characters’ pre-meet-cute pasts—and all the attendant emotional baggage.

With its quicksilver shifts and sneaking sweetness, the experience of watching “Too Much” feels a lot like falling in love, @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

more than 8,000 journalists have been laid off since 2022. That's 9% of the industry.

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.

(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)

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“Your Friends and Neighbors” and the Perils of the Rich-People-Suck Genre The Apple TV+ series, starring Jon Hamm as a hedge funder turned thief, serves up luxury porn in the guise of social critique.

Recent shows about the ethically challenged rich have emphasized their characters’ personality disorders along with the trappings of the high life. ” ‘Your Friends and Neighbors’ flips the formula, to unsatisfying effect,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

“Your Friends and Neighbors” and the Perils of the Rich-People-Suck Genre The Apple TV+ series, starring Jon Hamm as a hedge funder turned thief, serves up luxury porn in the guise of social critique.

Recent shows about the ethically challenged rich have emphasized their characters’ personality disorders along with the trappings of the high life. ” ‘Your Friends and Neighbors’ flips the formula, to unsatisfying effect,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

A sitting cabinet member being unable to define the bedrock principle of Anglo-American law for nearly a millennium will get .00001% of the coverage devoted to Hillary Clinton’s email server or Joe Biden’s mental capacity

that one scene in SINNERS is one of the most breathtaking feats of cinema i've seen in years. coogler is cooking.

On “Hacks” and “The Studio,” Hollywood Confronts Its Flop Era The industry has long loved to tell stories about itself—but, in 2025, the self-satirizing has an air of crisis management.

Sharp @inkookang.bsky.social column about Hacks and The Studio: www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

In the Dark Long-form investigative journalism, hosted by Madeleine Baran.

The Pulitzer I’m most excited about was for audio reporting, “In the Dark,” which didn’t get nearly the attention it should have. www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-t...

On “Hacks” and “The Studio,” Hollywood Confronts Its Flop Era The industry has long loved to tell stories about itself—but, in 2025, the self-satirizing has an air of crisis management.

Hollywood has long loved to tell stories about itself—but, in 2025, the self-satirizing has an air of crisis management. @inkookang.bsky.social writes about the new season of “Hacks” and Seth Rogen’s new series, “The Studio.”

Australia re-elects Anthony Albanese as Labor rides anti-Trump wave to seal crushing win Opposition leader Peter Dutton fails to dissociate himself from Trump-like rhetoric and policies – and loses his seat

This is two global elections in ONE WEEK where the conservative candidate trying to become prime minister not only led his party to a big loss but lost their own seat in parliament (!) in huge upsets. We are global pariahs unseen since the end of the Cold War and need stronger domestic opposition.

Gotta love these AI simps constantly misrepresenting why people hate this technology

It’s not just because it currently sucks

It’s because it’s very existence is based on a crime

I finally subscribed to WIRED a few months back and...I love it?

Its tech lens on culture and politics means it's writing some of today's best journalism. You can see that scope just in today's most popular pieces.

There are not many jobs like this in journalism, so when somebody quits one for this reason, it is worth listening to.

I did listen to the podcast! (I think I liked it less than you did.) Curious what you’d make of the show!

Can “The Last of Us” Outlive Its Antihero? The series’ most exhilarating episode yet ended with the brutal murder of a beloved character. Where does the show go from here?

Though Season 2 of HBO’s “The Last of Us” gives its characters’ individual dynamics more room to breathe, it ends up feeling smaller than its predecessor over all, @inkookang.bsky.social writes. Read her review.

In “Dying for Sex,” Cancer and Kink Are Just the Beginning The Michelle Williams-led series, about a woman seeking erotic fulfillment amid a terminal diagnosis, starts off as an unorthodox comedy—then deepens into something far better.

The new miniseries “Dying for Sex” has a morbid, somewhat off-putting hook: a woman with terminal cancer looks to get laid while she still can. But the show is “also something of a Trojan horse,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt” The hectic medical drama, now streaming on Max, is a throwback to a different era of television—and a counterintuitive comfort watch.

“The Pitt” is built on nostalgia and predictability. “It’s structured such that you know you’ll have your heart broken and mended several times per episode—it’s just a matter of how,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt” The hectic medical drama, now streaming on Max, is a throwback to a different era of television—and a counterintuitive comfort watch.

“The Pitt,” an “E.R.” meets “24” medical drama, harkens back to a different era of television. It’s “a counterintuitive comfort watch,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

The Second Season of “Wolf Hall” Surpasses Its Acclaimed Predecessor In the culmination of the Hilary Mantel adaptation, Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell becomes a more poignant figure, weighed down by regrets.

The second season of “Wolf Hall,” a PBS/BBC adaptation of the novelist Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of the same name, arrives a decade after the first season but it is “arguably greater than its acclaimed predecessor,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

What to Watch That Isn’t “The White Lotus” Also: the audacious Andy Kaufman; Richard Learoyd’s haunting new photography; and the Wooster Group gets wistful.

The current season of HBO’s “The White Lotus” isn’t as fizzy or as incisive as the two before, @inkookang.bsky.social writes. In our Goings On newsletter, she recommends three other shows to check out instead.

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The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt” The hectic medical drama, now streaming on Max, is a throwback to a different era of television—and a counterintuitive comfort watch.

What makes “The Pitt” bingeable, even beguiling, is “its portrayal of E.R. doctors as not only dedicated medical professionals but also unofficial social workers,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

The Parental Panic of “Adolescence” The Netflix series about a thirteen-year-old killer attempts to grapple with the crisis facing boys today—but its true sympathies lie with the baffled adults around them.

The new Netflix drama “Adolescence” is an expression of parental panic, an effort to grapple with the crisis of boys and masculinity today. Unfortunately, the show’s “flashy, fragmentary approach undermines its attempts to illuminate,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

“The White Lotus” Overstays Its Welcome In the third season of Mike White’s HBO satire of the rich and terrible, a now familiar formula yields diminishing returns.

In the third season of “The White Lotus,” a now familiar formula yields diminishing returns, @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken]

CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter

RFK Jr is blaming a dead child for not exercising more