Happy Friday, friends! Here are some links to check out this Friday while you’re pretending to work and counting the hours until happy hour.
ICYMI on FYA
On the Friday Night Lights Rewatch, we’re heading into season four with fresh new drinking game rules!
In this week’s Stream It, Mandy C. binged my boyfriend, Matthew Goode’s, new detective series, Dept. Q (Season #1).
In book reports:
- Brian reviewed the depressing horror story, You’ve Awoken Her by Ann Dávila Cardinal.
Book-Related Things
Per BookRiot: Trans and Nonbinary Voices are Growing in YA.
Queer YA Stories for Pride and Beyond
Ali Hazelwood Leaves Instagram After Bullying Over Hunger Games Joke. It is 2025, ffs. People need to get out and touch grass and go join a protest or something instead of doing absurd stuff on the internet.
Onscreen Things
Glenn Close and Billy Porter Added to The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Cast
The We Were Liars series is out now on Amazon Prime and Vanity Fair has: The 5 Biggest Changes From Book to Show.
Vulture chatted with Thelma star, June Squibb, at Cannes about matzo-ball soup, men, and lying.
The Real-World Places Behind Andor Season 2’s Architectural Marvels. (We reviewed Andor, Season 1.)
Richard E. Grant, Ruth Jones to Star in The Other Bennet Sister for BBC, BritBox
Social Media Things
Keri Russell and Scott Speedman talk Felicity in their Actors on Actors.
Miscellaneous Things
The real “dollar princesses” that inspired The Buccaneers, Downton Abbey, and The Gilded Age.
What’s distracting you this week?
