SRSLY #41: Beyoncé / Bake Off Crème de la Crème / Zodiac

The Links

(02:50) Beyoncé – Lemonade

Watch it on Tidal.

Beyoncé's Lemonade is about much more than infidelity and Jay Z.

Beyoncé and Hillary Clinton: how two scorned women moved on.

That “Beyoncé is black” sketch from SNL.

(13:45) Bake Off Crème de la Crème

Our episode on The Great British Bake Off.

The series on the BBC.

When the sugar swan fell over.

(22:30) Zodiac

The trailer.

Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer, explained.

Next week:

Anna is watching the first episode of The West Wing, and listening tothe accompanying episode of The West Wing Weekly.

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SRSLY #40: Victoria / Undercover / Monument Valley

The Links

The piece about The A Word Simon recommended.

(05:15) Victoria

The trailer for Victoria.

An interview with director Sebastian Schipper, with some insight into how the film was made.

(16:00) Undercover

Undercover on the BBC.

Bim Adewunmi on why Undercover shouldn't be a big deal, yet it is.

(26:00) Monument Valley

Monument Valley in the App Store.

Get an idea of what the game looks like on Pinterest.

A good introduction to the game.

Next week:

Caroline is watching Zodiac.

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SRSLY #39: The A Word / Crocodile on the Sandbank / Luther

The Links

(05:40) The A Word

The A Word on iPlayer.

A glimpse of the Israel show, Yellow Peppers, that this programme is based on.

(13:10) Crocodile on the Sandbank

A summary of the book.

The official website for Amelia Peabody.

(24:00) Luther

A summary of the Alice-Luther dynamic.

A nice interview with Idris Elba about the character of John Luther.

Next week:

Anna is playing Monument Valley.

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SRSLY #38: Zayn’s Mind of Mine / Zootropolis / The Magicians

The Links

(05:10) Zayn Malik’s Mind of Mine

The album on Spotify.

The bizarre Pitchfork review Caroline likes.

(14:43) Zootropolis

The trailer.

Mark Kermode on cinema's newest odd couple.

(25:35) The Magicians

The book, by Lev Grossman.

This piece on sexism in the trilogy.

Next week:

Caroline is watching the first ever episode of Luther.

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PS If you missed #37, check it out here.

SRSLY #37: Doctor Thorne / Female Friendship / Alt-J

(03:30) Doctor Thorne

The whole series on ITV.com

The Guardian’s review: “the pug was the best character by a country mile”

(13:40) Female Friendship Week

Anna’s piece, co-written by her best friend

Caroline’s piece on a friendship lost

All the pieces from Female Friendship Week

(27:10) An Awesome Wave

Listen on Spotify

Laura Snape’s Pitchfork review.

The music used this week was:

Money - The Flying Lizards
Bros - Wolf Alice
The Ripe and Ruin - Alt-J
Matilda - Alt-J

Next week:

Anna is reading Lev Grossman’s The Magicians.

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PS If you missed #36, check it out here.

SRSLY #36: Thirteen, Anomalisa, A Little Chaos

The Links

(03:30) Thirteen

The whole series on BBC iPlayer.

The trailer on YouTube.

Our episodes about Room and My Mad Fat Diary.

(15:10) Anomalisa

The trailer on YouTube.

Ryan Gilbey's review.

Peter Bradshaw's review (with the bit about the sex scene).

(23:20) A Little Chaos

The trailer.

An interview with Alan Rickman about the film.

Next week:

Caroline is listening to the first Alt-J album, An Awesome Wave.

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PS If you missed #35, check it out here.

SRSLY #35: The Night Manager, Alice Isn’t Dead, Benny & Joon

The Links

(02:26) Alice Isn't Dead

The first episode.

The NYT on fiction podcasts as a booming industry.

The episode of SRSLY where we talk about Welcome to Night Vale.

(11:02) The Night Manager

All the episodes so far on iPlayer.

Rachel Cooke's review of the programme.

(23:35) Benny & Joon

The trailer.

Roger Ebert's original review of the film.

Next week:

Anna is watching A Little Chaos.

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#34: The 1975, The People v OJ Simpson and Date Night

The Links

The 1975 (04:30)

Drowned in Sound's review of the album.

The Fader's interview with Matt Healy by Peter Robinson. (Read this one, it's bizarre.)

The Independent's interview with Matt Healy.

Matt Healy's (rude!!) comments about One Direction.

The People v OJ Simpson (14:00)

Catch up on iPlayer.

Emily Nassbaum's very good review.

Date Night (26:17)

The trailer.

A really quite sweet joint interview with Tiny Fey and Steve Carell.

Next week:

Caroline is watching Benny & Joon.

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SRSLY #33: Hail, Channing!

The Links

(04:00) Hail, Caesar!

The Eddie Mannix episode of the You Must Remember This podcast.

Ryan Gilbey on why the film is a breakthrough in terms of storytelling for the Coens.

(16:20) Riot Girls season on Radio 4

All the programmes from the season on BBC iPlayer.

Joy Wilkinson on the process of adapting The Life and Loves of a She-Devil for radio.

(29:45) Short Term 12

The trailer.

An interview with Brie Larson from the time of the film.

Next week:

Anna is watching Date Night.

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SRSLY #32: Big Love

The Links

(02:30) Love

Gillian Jacobs: Learning How to Act Like Myself for Lenny Letter.

Anna's piece about the anti-rom com stance of Love.

(12:30) A Bigger Splash

A detailed look at the costumes and props in the film.

An interveiw with “Marianne Lane”, Tilda Swinton’s character.

Robbie Collin makes a good case for why it was a good film (he's wrong though).

Some great stills from the film.

(22:00) Year of Yes

The video of Shonda Rhimes’ commencement address at Dartmouth.

The audiobook of Year of Yes

Next week:

Caroline is watching Short Term 12.

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SRSLY #31: Pablo at War

(2:05) On Kanye West

If you’ve really been living under a rock, here’s Kanye’sTwitter feed. Beware all ye who enter here!!!!!!!

Stream the now-released album on Tidal. (You can get a free trial.)

Pitchfork’s excellent review.

Anna’s piece about resentfully trekking over to Hackney to watch the album launch.

(11:50) On Men at War

Our colleague Barbara’s excellent piece on Roosh V.

(25:10) On Ali Smith

The collection’s first story, which features this quote we mentioned:

In Shakespeare, the word stone can also mean a mirror. The word pebble has, in its time, also meant a lens made of rock crystal and a sizeable amount of gunpowder. The word mundane comes from mundus, the Latin word for the world. At one time the word cheer seems to have meant the human face. The word last is a very versatile word. Among other more unexpected things - like the piece of metal shaped like a foot which a cobbler uses to make shoes - it can mean both finality and continuance, it can mean the last time and something a lot more lasting than that.

To conclude once held the meaning to enclose. To tell has at different times meant the following: to express in words, to narrate, to explain, to calculate, to count, to order, to give away secrets, to say goodbye. To live in clover means to live luxuriously, in abundance.

The Guardian review Caroline mentioned.

If you’d like to cry with joy at all the beauty and humanity on this strange little planet, try reading Smith’s love letter to John Berger.

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PS If you missed #30, check it out here.

SRSLY #30: Awards Special

The Links

The list of Oscar nominations.

The list of BAFTA nominations.

Charlotte Rampling's silly comments.

Kristen Stewart's slightly less silly comments.

Danny DeVito's comments.

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SRSLY #29: The One Where They Take it Seriously

The Links

4:40 – Ross

The Ross is the Worst tumblr.

Buzzfeed count the ways Ross is The Worst.

19:02 – Economics

A blog that tries to figure out who the hell earns how much?

How much money would Joey really have made?

How much did Joey owe Chandler? One fan's theory.

And what you were all wondering: how much would one of those apartments really cost?

29:30 – Political correctness

Salon and Slate on Chandler's homophobia. 

The most homophobic moments from the show.

Transphobia and trans erasure in Friends.

A defence of Friends as "straightforwardly pleasant".

43.08 – Friendship

Who were the closest friends?

The One With All The Quantifiable Friendships.

55.58 – Legacy

The brilliant Bim Adewunmi on the show.

The hunting of the snark: Friends, 20 years on.

The Telegraph on the show's televisual legacy.

On the language of Friends.

Vogue on Seinfield v Friends, after they aried.

Vice on why Friends turned us into horrible people, because it's Vice, isn't it.

Plus

In defence of Janice. We're all Janice truthers now.

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#28: Bears and Bio-pecs

The Links

3:35 – The Revenant / The Big Short

Ryan Gilbey on this year’s Oscar nominations, including his take on The Revenant.

Films like Spotlight imply absolution for their viewers – but come up short.

18:30 – Carpool Karaoke

The full Carpool Karaoke playlist on YouTube.

Our faves: Adele, One Direction and Justin Bieber.

Stuart Heritage on Carpool Karaoke and how it makes you like James Corden.

That Jimmy Fallon gif.

29:39 – Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

The trailer.

How Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries conquered America

Next time:

Caroline is reading Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith.

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#27: Room with a View

The Links

(04:03) Room

Ryan Gilbey’s review of Room, in which he argues that the film is as trapped by its own conceit as its characters are.

Anna’s piece on the technical challenge of filming inside Room.

Mark Kermode on why he found Room overwhelming.

(18:26) Jessica Jones

Jessica Jones on Netflix.

Sezin Koehler on the universal domestic violence storylines in Jessic Jones.

This is a great discussion of why the “superhero” aspect of the show is so interesting, given that it has a female protagonist.

(31:43) Sheep in the Big City

The first episode of Sheep in the Big City.

For comparison: Shaun the Sheep and Babe: Pig in the City.

Two of Caroline's many 2015 articles about sheep.

Next week:

Anna is watching Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.

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#26: Portrait of a Murderer

The Links

0-05:30 – Intro: on David Bowie and Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Carrie Fisher tweet Anna mentions.

The Carrie Fisher interview Caroline mentions.

05:30 – Making a Murderer

Watch the whole thing on Netflix.

The science behind the confession of Steve Avery's nephew.

What that terrible courtroom sketch reminds us of.

19:15 – Fun Home

A good account of the feelings Fun Home gives you.

An example of the use of colour in the art.

A good interview with Bechdel about the process of creating Fun Home.

27:50 – Quartet

An interesting review with some insight into the original play.

Joan Sutherland and Pavarotti’s Quartet from Rigoletto.

Next week:

Caroline is watching Sheep in the Big City.

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#25: Joy Meets World

Caroline and Anna discuss the new Jennifer Lawrence-Bradley Cooper film Joy, the Sherlock special, and Channel 4 series First Dates.

The Links

Joy

The trailer.

An on-the-fence review.

An interview with director David O Russell.

Sherlock

One of those super-positive reviews we mentioned.

Our friend E Minkel's blog about her feelings following the special.

First Dates

The show on All4.

A good "best bits" playlist on YouTube.

Next week:

Anna is watching the film Quartet.

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#24: The Festive TV Special

Caroline and Anna discuss this year's festive TV offering, plus listener recommendations for the best films to watch at Christmas.

The Links

Rachel Cooke rounds up this year's Christmas TV.

Anna's piece about Stick Man.

This review of Dickensian makes some good points (about the hats).

This is a good piece on the "quiet brilliance" of Detectorists.

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#23: Love, Actually

It's the first of two SRSLY Christmas specials! First up, we revisit Love, Actually in great detail, with a little help from our friends. Joining Caroline and Anna are: Anoosh Chakelian, Barbara Speed, Stephen Bush, and Jonn Elledge.

The Links

The Jezbel piece that started the debate, by Lindy West.

The Hairpin weigh up the pros and cons of the film. It’s also worth checking out their Love Actually Week from 2013.

The New Statesman’s own Eleanor Margolis on that deleted lesbian scene. (Watch the scene here.)

The Definitive Ranking Of All Of The Turtlenecks In Love Actually.

On the Carol/Karen name slip.

I Will Not Be Ashamed of Loving Love Actually.

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#22: Time for Adventures

We chat the BBC adaptation of Capital, find joy in Rainbow Rowell’s novels Fangirl and Carry On, and get our teeth into Adventure Time.

The Links

Capital

Claire Tomalin finds the Dickensian parallels in the novel.

The trailer for the BBC adaptation.

John Lanchester on Game of Thrones.

Rainbow Rowell

Our special guest for this section was Elizabeth Minkel, who writes for the NS about fan culture and does her own podcast, Fansplaining. She's on Twitter and Tumblr.

Some blurb about Fangirl and Carry On.

Elizabeth asks: what is fanfiction, anyway?

Adventure Time

Caroline’s favourite AT short (excellent Ice King).

The best, the only Adventure Time long read.

For next time:

Caroline is watching First Dates.

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