Hung Up

Hung Up is a fresh weekly newsletter created by Hunter Harris. With four years of experience at Vulture covering movies, music, and pop culture, I've had some memorable moments, like visiting a cat cafe with Jason Derulo. I've also written profiles on stars such as Haim, Charlie Puth, Keke Palmer, and Sharon Stone. From ranking the male characters in Insecure to getting excited about the drama surrounding the upcoming Avatar sequels, my journey has been diverse. Hung Up features a mix of essays, interviews, recommendations, reviews, gossip, memorable quotes, heartfelt notes, and all sorts of interesting content.

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Katy Perry Sang “What A Wonderful World” In Space

1 week ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

Pokemon go to the polls: That Cosmopolitan cover story I wrote about Brenda Song and Macaulay Culkin was nominated for a Webby Award. I’m sure I’m not telling you something you don’t already know, but Katy Perry went to space on Monday morning. It’s a woman’s world, and she is so lucky to be living in it… that she decided to leave it for a 10-minute sojourn beyond the earth’s atmosphere.
I’d Watch A Separate White Lotus About What Happened on The White Lotus

1 week ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

Spoilers for The White Lotus season three finale below. Sunday night’s 90-minute White Lotus season three finale was the amuse-bouche for the real White Lotus drama: what happened on the HBO show’s Thailand set? “It was a theatre camp, but to some extent an open prison camp: you couldn’t avoid one other,” Jason Isaacs, who played Daddy Ratliff, told The Guardian in an interview published in February.
What Should Dr. Robby Do On His Day Off?

2 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

More from Hung Up this week: An afternoon hang with! What did you think of The White Lotus season finale? And I loved the new Steven Soderbergh movie. Warning: Spoilers for this season of The Pitt and the season finale of The White Lotus. Tomorrow’s Pitt finale chat will be paywalled btw 🩺On Thursday night, I will clock in for the final hour of my shift as a sexy-but-sleepy, hopeful-but-beleaguered emergency room doctor in a Pittsburgh hospital.
I Love A Man With A Job (Steven Soderbergh Edition)

2 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

Black BagNew releaseTaut, tense, exactly what the doctor1 ordered, actually: movie stars on camera being movie stars. Michael Fassbender’s icy insistence. Cate Blanchett cool and aloof. How fun it is to watch Marisa Abela seethe in scenes with real romantic fury! There’s a dinner scene early in the movie that feels like a luxury. So many movies feel weightless, with stakes that never rise past “who cares!” This one built a labyrinth of loyalties and secrets in a few pages of dialogue.
"How Mad Do You Think Duke Is That They're Out of the Men's Finals AND This"

2 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

More from Hung Up this week: Tomorrow at 12 PM I’ll be live on Substack with ’s Joanna Goddard! And Thursday, there will be a chat for the season finale shift of The Pitt. It’s wonderful that your mom is always right, except when it’s terrible. Piper Ratliff (Sarah Catherine Hook) insists that her wealthy North Carolina family travel to Thailand to research a thesis she wasn’t assigned.
What's Gonna Happen on The White Lotus Tonight?

2 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

Checking in before the White Lotus season finale later! Tonightâs White Lotus chat will be paywalled. The least important part of any White Lotus season is the whodunit. This is a show about rich people misbehaving, about Belinda having a hot son, about Mook getting the ick, and that every friend vacation is an exercise in mental and emotional toughness.
What Did Morgan Wallen Do When He Got to ‘God’s Country?’

3 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

By now, you know that Morgan Wallen, a country music star with an even worse reputation than othercountrymusicstars,1 walked off the set of Saturday Night Live last weekend. He was the night’s musical guest, alongside host (and recent Oscar-winner) Mikey Madison. When it was time for the show’s clap-clap goodnights, in which the host and musical guest generally hug and thank the cast and crew who helped them survive Hollywood’s greatest hazing ritual,2 Wallen stomped offstage.
175,000: Yk What Hell Yea!!!

3 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

A micro Hung Up-date: This week, the total email list reached 175,000 readers! Holy shit!!!I am not superstitious — knock on my giant forehead — but I get worked up and in my own head about benchmarks of any kind. Anniversaries make me nervous; I love to cry on my birthday.
‘My life is actually pretty drama-free’ Swears The Most Dramatic Man Alive

3 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

In tonight’s Friday Post: a close read of the Ben Affleck GQ cover … Jonah Platt’s radical reimagining of the first amendment … an update on Martha Stewart’s memoir … and the Gwyneth-Meghan Markle sit-down … What would you call a turn of events wherein you publicly woo your ex from 20 years ago via magazine covers and love letters, you papp walk in New York City to slowly roll out your relationship, you hard launch at the Venice Film Festival, you have two separate wedding ceremonies only to...
27 Files I Need More Urgently Than The JFK Files

1 month ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

My curiosity about John F. Kennedy’s assassination begins and ends with why Ronan Farrow hated Jackie so much. (I have to fall on my sword for a movie with the line “Brookline is no place to bury a president.”) Maybe it extends to why Peter Saarsgaard, of all people, was cast as Bobby Kennedy … but really, I do not have more questions about JFK’s death.