Rhik Samadder
Columnist at The Guardian
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6 days ago |
theguardian.com | Rhik Samadder
The South Korean smash hit drama that gripped global audiences returns for a final instalment. It’s brutal, cruel and, sadly, brings back the flimsy animal-mask wearing VIPs whose season one appearance caused global mockery
Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem - this shameless, crack-smoking politician’s life makes for car-crash TV
1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Rhik Samadder
Canadians make bad decisions too. For proof, see this schadenfreude-fuelled documentary about Rob Ford, the bellicose former conservative mayor of Toronto. Ford’s rolling scandals in office include public drunkenness, smoking crack with gun-runners, and lying about everything. Talking heads in the documentary, sensitively titled Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem (Netflix, from Tuesday 17 June), remember him as “an everyman … without a shred of credibility … who turned city hall into a circus”.
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Rhik Samadder
You might think a garden gnome is a harbinger of twee, a depressing, frozen homunculus that snails make potty on. How dare you. These could be your friends, or more. Despite their cosy or even complacent reputation, garden gnomes are uncanny. Drawing on pagan gods and Germanic dwarf folklore, they are a nod to the ancient and otherworldly – albeit one that might sit a little strange in this world, today. What do gnomes do? They fish. They nap. But we could think bigger.
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3 weeks ago |
airmail.news | Rhik Samadder
Golf is—apologies to fans, the ground is gonna get a little rough—inert material for TV and film. It’s not explosively combative like say football, either American or actual. In golf, players interact with the environment, not each other. There is no time pressure. Physical adjustments are minute, the airborne ball impossible to see. For casual spectators, the experience mostly amounts to watching a middle-aged man shuffle above a tiny ball, like an emperor penguin sitting on an egg.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Rhik Samadder
An old thought-experiment, but illuminating. Imagine you were able to go back to the time of the Neanderthals. Your bag only has room for a box of matches and a pair of varifocals. In our era, you are a confusing, vulnerable presence. In theirs, you are a god. Imagine the tribal elder, as you strap the spectacles to their blind head. Actually, they were proficient hunters, and the elder would have been about 37, with a screen time of zero, so probably had sharper eyesight. They might kill you.
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