Happy Friday, friends! I hope there’s a giant happy hour cocktail in your future (just like there is in mine).
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In this week’s Friday Night Lights Rewatch, Buddy gets arrested for trashing a strip club, and that’s a wild sentence to type. Other stuff happened too, but wow.
On The Last of Us, we finally find out what happened during that five-year time jump.
In this week’s Stream It, Movie Review, Brian checked out that little Michael B. Jordan vampire period piece that hardly anyone is talking about, Sinners.
In book reports:
- Mandy C. reviewed the tropey, college-set The Romance Rivalry by Susan Lee.
- Regina checked out the whimsical fantasy, The Web of Time by Flavia Brunetti.
Book-Related Things
The best road trip audiobooks to match your travel time.
Kickstarter for Illuminae Files 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Box Set
There’s not enough side-eye for the Chicago Sun-Times getting accused of using AI to create a reading list of books that don’t exist.
Reactor: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Romantasy.
Onscreen Things
All the Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping casting! Ralph Fiennes to play President Snow, Elle Fanning to play Effie Trinkett, and Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman.
Netflix’s Forever, a Love Letter to Black Girlhood
The Black Dagger Brotherhood trailer looks ridiculous. I can’t wait!
A Teen Wolf banshee and a Shadowhunter? Yes please and thank you. Hallmark’s Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story Casts Holland Roden and Matthew Daddario.
Yellowjackets renewed for season 4 at Showtime.
Chris Evans in glass, that is all.
Social Media Things
Edward Cullen and Katniss Everdeen together on the red carpet! Sorry about all the screaming.
Miscellaneous Things
And Taylor Jenkins Reid is making a musical with The Chicks!
What’s distracting you this week?
