Happy Friday, friends, and Happy “Hotumn” (more on that below)!
ICYMI on FYA
In the Friday Night Lights Rewatch, Meredith C. recapped episode 12, wherein everybody in Dillon has a messy home life.
In this week’s Stream It, Sarah recommends the big alien hug of a show, Strange Planet.
In book reviews:
- Brian reviewed Trespass Against Us by Leon Kemp, a dual-timeline haunted house mystery.
Book-Related Things
Time magazine is all about romance novels this month, including this essay about their sexual benefits.
Sarah Rees Brennan: How my cancer treatment inspired my new book – and my ‘villain era’
NYT on century-wide age gaps in romantasy. Paris Hilton voice: “That’s hot.”
Onscreen Things
The Diplomat season two scoop.
16-TIME EMMY NOMINEE, Christine Baranski talks The Gilded Age and a possible Mama Mia 3.
The Red, White & Royal Blue Team Say They Approached The Movie Adaptation “As Fans”, And Give Update On The Sequel
R.I.P. Gena Rowlands. Rewatch some favorite Rowlands performances this weekend. There’s always The Notebook, but she’s criminally underrated in Hope Floats and Something to Talk About. 1974’s A Woman Under the Influence is streaming on Max if you want to see an iconic turn.
Social Media Things
Rainbow Rowell fills in for advice columnist, Ask Prudence.
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are STILL trying to murder us with their sexual chemistry.
Jake Gyllenhaal knows the job.
Jeff Zentner, Lord of Autumn, welcomes us to Hotumn.
Miscellaneous Things
Dolly Parton is launching a beauty line, “Dolly Beauty.”
What’s distracting you this week?
