This week we're talking about why we're stressed out, why the country is stressed out, and whether anxiety has become a permanent condition. We consider the role technology has played in driving us to this point, from push alerts — so many push alerts — to Twitter to the "algorithmic gaze." Then we come back to culture and focus on a few works that either encapsulate the chaos of 2018 or offer a possible path for moving ahead.
Discussed This Week:
“Pony” (Genuwine)
“The Middle” (Zedd, Maren Morris, Grey)
“The Comfort in Stockpiling Dried Beans” (Tejal Rao, The New York Times Magazine)
“The Man Who Knew Too Little” (Sam Dolnick, The New York Times)
Annihilation (Paramount Pictures)
“Southern Reach Trilogy” (Jeff VanderMeer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Ready Player One (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Downsizing (Paramount Pictures)
Angels in America (Tony Kushner)
Angels in America (miniseries; HBO)
America Has a Problem
Plastic Off the Sofa
I'm That Girl
New Foundation
Summer Renaissance
Alien Superstar
We Belong Together
When Your Neighbor’s the Highway
And a Britney Song Was On …
Sweat Equity
Can Athletes Ever Be Movie Stars?
Keanu
Sex, Death & Bunnies
Where'd All the Method Acting Go?
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American Top 40
A New Season of 'Still Processing'
'Before I Let Go'
The People in the Neighborhood
We, Tina
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The Daily
The Ezra Klein Show
Modern Love
Dear Sugars
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