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The Gilded Age 3x01 review: Welcome back to the Upper East Side

3 days ago | inbetweendrafts.com | Claire Di Maio

Hey Upper East Siders, welcome back to another season of The Gilded Age, where every Broadway star your mom (and this New York-based writer) loves roams through ballrooms and carriages spilling tea and attending operas.
How Spielberg's killer shark accidentally ate Hollywood

1 week ago | inbetweendrafts.com | Jon Negroni

Fifty years later, Spielberg’s shark thriller, Jaws, remains the most important film ever made by complete accident. And there’s a reason why no one will ever make another one exactly like it. Here’s the thing about Jaws that nobody wants to admit on its 50th anniversary: it’s probably Hollywood’s last great, beautiful accident.
'Materialists' Review - InBetweenDrafts

1 week ago | inbetweendrafts.com | Allyson Johnson

Celine Song takes a major stumble in her sophomore effort, the surface-level and cloying Materialists. There’s realism, and then there’s cold, calculated detachment. It’s the latter of which the misguided and tonally vapid Materialists falls into, a film that, rather than reigniting a flame, suggests that love would be better staying dead.
The Best Books To Read This Summer

1 week ago | inbetweendrafts.com | Brianna Robinson

It may be dreary and rainy on the East Coast, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have your summer TBR at the ready. From popcorn thrillers, swoon-worthy romances, or page-turning horror novels, here are the 14 best books to read this summer, whether you’re relaxing at the beach or planning a staycation. My Friends by Fredrik BackmanFredrik Backman’s books are everywhere. If you need a choice for one of the best books to read this summer, you can’t go wrong with any of his titles.
'Elio' review: Pixar navigates the cosmos of childhood loneliness

1 week ago | inbetweendrafts.com | Jon Negroni

A space-obsessed boy becomes Earth’s ambassador in Pixar’s Elio, a sincere return to form for the studio. Here’s the thing about Elio: it’s not trying to make you cry. Not really. Sure, there’s grief baked into the story of an eleven-year-old boy whose parents are gone, living with an aunt who loves him but doesn’t quite know how to show it. But this isn’t Pixar coming for your tear ducts with a laser sword.
Ginny & Georgia Season 3 Review

1 week ago | inbetweendrafts.com | Justin Carreiro

The skeletons of Georgia’s past have finally caught up with her. Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia Season 3 was an emotionally gripping season for the Millers as they faced the harsh realities of Georgia’s murder trial. After two seasons of rocky adjustments in Wellsbury, Ginny and Austin nearly saw a world without their mother. However, like the trial, the third season shone a dark light on the quiet town of Wellsbury as everyone’s secrets started coming out in the open.
Brian Wilson, 'Pet Sounds,' and the Impossible Intimacy of Music

1 week ago | inbetweendrafts.com | Jon Negroni

Pet Sounds changed music forever. 59 years later, Brian Wilson’s death reminds us why that still matters. Brian Wilson might’ve been the first musical artist to treat a pop album like a soul transplant. And now, in the wake of his death at age 82, we’re left with the uncanny ache of having known someone through sound more intimately than we ever could in life. “Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older?” he once asked, not realizing he’d accidentally written the future’s saddest eulogy.
'Prime Minister' review: Jacinda Ardern makes her case

2 weeks ago | inbetweendrafts.com | Sarah Vincent

The story of New Zealand’s former leader is both informative and unfinished in the documentary Prime Minister. Prime Minister is a documentary about New Zealand’s fortieth Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern from 2017 through 2023. Ardern has the distinction of being the youngest woman head of government and the second elected head of government to give birth during her term (technically, the first to give birth to a girl).
Every Star Wars Live-Action Show, Ranked

2 weeks ago | inbetweendrafts.com | Jon Negroni

From Andor to Obi-Wan and Ahsoka to Acolyte, here’s our ranking of all the Star Wars live-action shows, starting with the darkest side. If you’re here, you’re either a Star Wars fan or someone who once dated one and is trying to understand what went wrong. Either way, welcome. The last five years have blessed us with more live-action Star Wars shows than we know what to do with, which is to say: too many.
Sense8 10 Years Later

3 weeks ago | inbetweendrafts.com | Allyson Johnson

There’s a pivotal, joyous sequence in the Netflix series Sense8 that remains a beacon for fans of this radical show about the integrity and power of love in all its manifestations. In it, a group of individuals from around the world sing along to “What’s Up,” offkey and exuberant, as they embrace these strangers who now share space in their brains. It’s one of those musical sequences that instantly latches on to the most sentimental of us.