Sidebar: Medieval Interior Design, Queer Zines, and Aimee Semple McPherson, why not?

Robert Flack, Samantha Irby’s Gaga Playlist, and the Joy of Good Mess

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Weekly Entertainment Picks: Must-Watch Shows, Essential Reads, and Top Podcasts

This is my weekly roundup of links and recommendations. If we talked IRL, I’d likely derail our entire conversation with “Sidebar, have you read | watched | listened | deep dived on this?”

Have you watched?

White Lotus. I’m here for Natasha Rothwell whose criminally underrated show How to Die Alone was cancelled after 1 season. Also, does Patrick Schwarzenegger know he’s been cast to type? That’s just one of the mysteries I’m trying to solve.

Loved Jane Fonda’s speech at the SAG awards:

IDK why my algorithm showed me this, but I’m not questioning it. Ruth Goodman is one of the greats in terms of living history interpretation. This is an hour-long doc on how medieval people decorated their homes (?) but is really a tour-de-force in which Ruth gets a monastery ready for a visit by an honored guest. Do not sleep on Ruth because she is ready to out entertain/host you in literally any time period. Could I make it in the Tudor period? No, I’d be dead before someone could say “antibiotics.” But, I will watch all of these because I just like seeing Ruth work and wondering what it must be like to be this accomplished.