The Idol is basically Showgirls the TV show, except less funny
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Also: what if that cool guy also had a rattail and wore a duster unironically? (Yes, this show has big incel vibes and is incredibly stupid)
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The Idol asks: What if it was the people trying to prevent abuse who were bad and wrong? What if there was a guy who was so cool that chicks just had to masturbate after meeting him? And what if that guy had sex in a different, cooler way than everyone else?
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I was today years old when I learned that the "Now! That's What I Call Music" series is available on vinyl
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🙄If they genuinely wanted to not draw attention to their rings they could have simply not filmed a TikTok about them in full view of everyone on the subway
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Oh my god nobody on the subway cares about your shitty Kay Jewelers ring can you get a grip
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For the good of the link-clicking public, I wrote an explainer about what standing ovations at Cannes signify, and counted out the many grains of salt with which they must be taken:
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I need this to be on vinyl so I can put it on at home on a rainy day, pour myself a drink and stand in front of my window full of melancholy
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The "Succession" score is so, so good, but I worry that now that it's streaming, there's a chance I listen to it on the train to work and then I start coming in hot like, "Fuck off! If I don't edit these articles, I might die"
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“Succession” has “a sprawling yet conceptually focused score that has developed, episode by episode, into a classic theme-and-variations work that would be just as fit for the concert hall as for the small screen,” our critic writes. nyti.ms/3MDOYOb
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The core of the Silicon Valley enthusiasm for AI is a seething hatred of people who possess artistic creativity, and the belief that anyone can do it if they just have the right tools and resources. It’s grown men unable to recognize the limits of their powers or taste.
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Not to be dramatic, but if you don’t read my Succession review, I’m going to show up at your house and start shrieking “I’M THE ELDEST BOY”
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A happy ending was never in the cards for any of the Roys #succession insidehook.com/article/televi
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Bumping this for the people who went to bed at a decent hour last night
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OK, I know it's 4:30 am, but here's my take on the Succession finale: insidehook.com/article/televi
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OK, I know it's 4:30 am, but here's my take on the Succession finale:
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The "Shiv is a feminist icon" people on here are truly bonkers. Like, imagine fundamentally misreading four seasons of a show so badly twitter.com/rachsyme/statu
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Lol at Jeremy Strong pretending he's ever heard a Weezer song in his life before
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Anyway, I'm gonna drink a Celsius, watch the Barry finale and then start writing this Succession review. Find it on insidehook.com sometime before dawn
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Doubling down on my prediction tonight so that everyone can clap for me when I'm right
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Time to revisit the best Succession parody on the internet
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(I'll still keep watching because I'm fully invested at this point, but c'mon, we can only take so many "the wilderness is in all of us" episodes)
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Can't remember a non-anthology show with as drastic a dip in quality between its first and second seasons as Yellowjackets. (Season 2 of Friday Night Lights, but that gets an asterisk due to the writer's strike) First season was great, second season was a giant, confusing mess
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If you don’t consider getting a tuna melt from the neighborhood diner that gave you food poisoning once five years ago that’s owned by a gruff old Italian guy who calls you “doll” and gives you free fountain drinks to be self-care, we are not the same
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On Nicole Holofcener's gentle yet brutal YOU HURT MY FEELINGS, a ruthlessly accurate depiction of intellectual insecurity and the struggle to feel like you're good at your job, things about which I of course know nothing:
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I feel very confident in my belief that this will be the greatest movie of all time
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New trailer for #Barbie movie has been released, featuring a snippet from the Nicki Minaj ‘Barbie World’ song!
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I wrote about why Greg is obviously going to be the American CEO
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I’m so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend Tina Turner.
She was truly an enormously talented performer and singer. She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous. She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her.
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The 80s performances are the ones I return to. Sprawling, stunning renditions. Over ten minutes of Proud Mary.
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My dad always liked/likes to talk about how he had a copy of this record as a kid that he literally wore out from playing so much, which was how I learned as a kid that that could happen and also how I learned that Tina Turner was simply the best
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The moment in the documentary on her life from a couple years ago where she said, "It wasn’t a good life.The good did not balance the bad. I had an abusive life, there’s no other way to tell the story. It’s a reality" remains one of the saddest, realest things I've ever heard
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RIP Tina Turner, one of the best to ever do it. Hopefully Ike Turner is still rotting in hell
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(Am I biased because a substantial number of my closest friends happen to be married men in their 30s and 40s? Probably! But "cAN mEn AnD wOMeN REalLY bE FrIEndS???" is so played out and dumb!)
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I wrote about Platonic, a show that dares to center itself around a man and a woman with no desire to have sex with each other that still manages to rely on some tired tropes
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Husband: Hey babe, turn on HBO max
wife: HBO max? You mean Max right?
husband: Max?
wife: Starting may 23rd hbo max is just Max
husband: Just Max huh? I like the sound of that. is anything different?
wife: No.
Husband: I love you so much
wife: i love you too
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Hate to say it, but AI art and entertainment has me excited for several reasons:
1. I don't understand what makes things good
2. Startled and confused by human expressions and hands
3. I type how to kiss into quora before dates
4. My personality is one time I googled stoicism
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Four days without press-on nails and I basically have open wounds where all my cuticles should be. Truly, what is wrong with me
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I've been saying since season 1 that the only person who should "win" Succession is Greg because it'd be hilarious but also the most poetic, but now I think it...might actually happen? All the Roy siblings implode or throw each other to the wolves and Greg is the American CEO?
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I'm the corpuscles of life
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Tag yourself in tonight’s episode of Succession. I’m (MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING).
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Timed it out perfectly so that I can use the 15-minute journey home to emotionally prepare myself for the extreme vibe shift from “being on a bar crawl all day” to “watching the deeply harrowing penultimate episodes of Succession and Barry”
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