Where editors share their weekly musings on pop culture—and recommend what to watch, read, and listen to right now. This week, we discuss Industry and Landman. |
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| Erica Gonzales, deputy editor, digital content: Our Sunday nights are booked for the next several weeks, thanks to the newest season of Industry, which is now two episodes in. We highlighted the HBO drama in last week's newsletter, but now it's time to get deeper into the weeds. Lauren, you visited the set while the cast and crew were filming season 4. How does it feel to watch the episodes now, after seeing what went on behind the scenes? |
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| | Lauren Puckett-Pope, senior culture editor: It's surreal to watch the episodes now, having witnessed the sheer amount of work—the repeated takes, the makeup touch-ups, the lighting tweaks—that go into each scene. I've visited sets before, but the Industry one felt really unique to me. Perhaps that's because season 4 itself feels unique from previous Industry seasons. |
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Erica: It has taken a turn, but I'm liking the new direction. Any details from the set or encounters with the cast during that visit that stuck out to you the most?
Lauren: Oh, same—I've seen the full slate of season 4 episodes now and can confidently say it's one of Industry's best seasons (if not its best). What stood out to me during my visit was how much Down and Kay put their faith in these actors. In one particular scene I watched featuring Marisa Abela, they let the cast do 20-plus takes until they agreed they'd hit all the right notes from all the right angles. That number of takes wasn't the case for every scene, of course, but it gave me an idea of how much creative experimentation—and how much trust—went into nailing the season's narrative tone. Erica: Incredible. If you haven't been watching so far, trust us: Now's the time.
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It isn't exactly Good Will Hunting, but the new Netflix film The Rip reunites bestie co-stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for a crowd-pleasing action thriller in which the duo play Miami cops who stumble upon millions of dollars in a stash house. From there, you should go watch the viral clip from The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in which Damon, Affleck, and Fallon name every town in Massachusetts as fast as they can.—LPP |
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The Landman season 2 finale dropped last night, but it's not yet the end for Taylor Sheridan's acclaimed Texas-set drama. Now's the time to catch up on the life and times of Billy Bob Thornton's Tommy Norris, president of the oil company M-Tex, which seems perpetually under threat…whether from outside or within. Paramount+ has already picked up the hugely popular series for a third season, and with Sheridan's other shows The Madison and Marshals both premiering this spring, the mega-producer remains as busy as ever.—LPP |
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After wowing the world with her bestselling memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died, the former Nickelodeon actress Jennette McCurdy has turned to fiction with her debut novel, Half His Age. As the title suggests, the story follows a high school student named Waldo, who enters a sexual and romantic relationship with her married English teacher, Mr. Korgy. Half His Age is a provocative, explicit, often intentionally uncomfortable read, but McCurdy's complete lack of squeamishness is exactly what lends the book its strength. She treats Waldo with the respect and dimensionality she deserves—while refusing to shy from the complexity and ugliness of her situation. With short, punchy sentences arranged in short, punchy chapters, Half His Age is the first in what I hope will be a long string of fiction hits from McCurdy. I highly recommend listening to the audiobook, read by McCurdy herself, then visit ELLE.com later this week to read the author's Shelf Life column.—LPP |
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WHAT YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO: |
Hilary Duff gets provocative (again) on the latest single from her long-awaited comeback album, luck…or something (out February 20). It's got an innocent, stuck-in-your-head melody, but the lyrics leave little to the imagination: "Back of a dive bar / Giving you head / Then sneak home late / Wake up your roommates." (Girl!) As Duff said in a statement, the song is about "that ache for a wilder, freer time—before the days were swallowed by carpools, budget talks, grocery runs." Like her other greatest hits, it's fueled by nostalgia.—EG |
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You can always count on Jemima Kirke to say something quotable. And her ELLE advice column, Tender Tips, is full of such gems. Her latest entry is loaded with breakup advice, including how to deal with guys who are just not that into you. As she puts it, "Emotionally unavailable is the medical term for uninterested."—EG |
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