We’re Here Florida, Part 1 Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We’re Here Florida, Part 1 Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, we’ve found the We’re Here’s Emmy submission tape for the year. “Florida, Part 1” is the perfect kind of tear-jerking, socially impactful television that awards voters applaud and audiences love.
The Belko Experiment. Depending on where you live in America, you could go to the movies this weekend and watch one or more of the following films: John Wick: Chapter 2, Logan, and The Belko Experiment. If you feel like staying home, you could queue up the newly released Catfight, a dramedy that revolves around Sandra Oh and Anne Heche getting into full-on fistfights, or Headshot, an Indonesian action flick in which Iko Uwais fights his way through waves of bad guys until they’re all dead.
The filmmaker famous for bending the truth tries his hand at memoir. Photo: Getty Images / Kent Nishimura This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.
We find each other in the middle of nowhere, a very, very dubious location that stretches for a kilometer,” Werner Herzog tells me shortly after we meet near a parking lot on an overcast morning in Altadena, California.
Wes Anderson. Those who’ve had a chance to check into Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel already know this, but an underlying theme to the film is World War II and its aftermath — although it never mentions Germany, the Nazis, Jews, or Communism outright. Instead of placing the story in the real world, we get a fictitious one, and a fictitious country called the Republic of Zubrowka, which seems to be somewhere vaguely in the vicinity of Germany or Hungary, both in the grand days before the War and decades after, when “common property” has dulled its luster.
Spoilers follow for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever shows its seams. It’s partially a movie about mourning Chadwick Boseman, whose August 2020 death from colon cancer came as a shock to his collaborators and castmates. It’s also an introduction to the antihero Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejía) and his underwater kingdom of Talokan, which is rich with references to Mesoamerican history and culture. Those two narrative tracks are mostly divergent, but they could have come together in a very obvious way: Princess Shuri (Letitia Wright) and Namor should have kissed.
This Michael Scott moment from The Office is the most popular GIF from the show on GIPHY. According to the GIF-hosting site Giphy, this GIF of the character Patrick from SpongeBob SquarePants has been viewed over a billion times. In it, a 3-D image of Patrick Star, a lovable and not especially bright starfish, lies on his belly with his hands on his cheeks. His eyes are wide, adoring, and the GIF’s nearly indistinguishable looping means that his feet are perpetually kicking back and forth like a metronome.
The New York Times put together a really cool interactive map of the top Netflix rentals by zip code for 12 U.S. metropolitan areas. Rachel Getting Married and Milk are huge in South Brooklyn and much of Seattle, for example. After you look up your own zip code, it’s fun to look up the other zip codes you’ve lived in in the past, and the zip codes of your friends in other cities.
Michelle Monaghan in The Path. If you ask the Meyerists of Hulu’s The Path, they’ll insist they belong to a movement — not a cult or a religion. But from the outside, it’s tricky to work out the difference. Invented by show creator Jessica Goldberg, Meyerism sits somewhere between a doomsday cult and a peaceful back-to-the-Earth hippie commune, with practices and beliefs drawn from Christian mysticism, traditional South American religions, and a variety of fringe cults.
The ongoing Writers Guild of America strike has been defined by its signage. Picketers on both coasts have gone viral for signs ranging from “It’s one writer, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?” to “Give up just one yacht.” Perturbed by issues ranging from a lack of residuals on streaming shows to overall poor pay and the continued leadership of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav (a favorite individual to target), members of the WGA have put pen to poster board and made their grievances known through wit.
The Divergent movie is finally in the world, and so here we are again, books in hand, ready to pick out every teeny-tiny little thing that was changed from page to screen. There were a lot of changes in this movie! And also some scenes that did not make the cut. Below is Vulture’s obsessive list, with some thoughts about how these various cuts mattered overall. Please feel free to add your own.