SRSLY #61: Autumn TV preview / Victoria / The Year of Magical Thinking

The Links

The Autumn TV preview

The shows we mentioned were:

Atlanta, Insecure, Queen Sugar, Gilmore Girls, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Black Mirror, Crisis in Six Scenes.

The episode of Another Round with Ava DuVernay.

Victoria

A clip from the show.

A piece on whether Victoria is the new Downton Abbey.

For next time

Caroline is watching The Bletchley Circle.

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PS If you missed #60, check it out here.

SRSLY #60: The Great British Bake Off / Bridget Jones’s Baby / Extremis

The Links

The Great British Bake Off

Catch up on the show so far.

Eleanor Margolis on how the Bake Off will change when it moves to Channel 4.

Bridget Jones’s Baby

Bridget as an enigma.

Bridget on forgetting to vote for Tony Blair.

Extremis

The film on Netflix.

For next time

Anna is reading The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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See you next week!

PS If you missed #59, check it out here.

SRSLY #59: Motherland / The One Hundred Nights of Hero / Ladylike

The Links

Motherland

The show on iPlayer.

An interesting review.

The One Hundred Nights of Hero

The book.

Get an idea of what it looks like on Isabel's instagram.

Ladylike

The videos on YouTube.

For next time

Caroline is watching Extremis on Netflix.

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See you next week!

PS If you missed #58, check it out here.

SRSLY #58: The Lesser Bohemians / The Get Down / Tallulah

The Links

The Lesser Bohemians

The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride.

The Times review.

Eimear McBride's writing for the New Statesman.

The Get Down

The show on Netflix.

Emily Nussbaum’s review.

Tallulah

The film itself.

Anna's interview with Sian Heder.

For next time

Anna is watching the Ladylike video series from Buzzfeed.

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Our theme music is “Guatemala - Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #57, check it out here.

SRSLY #57: The Summer Movies Special

The Links

Hail Caesar!

A Bigger Splash

Joy

Victoria

Love & Friendship

Zootropolis

For next time

We'll be back with a full episode on 6 September 2016, for which Caroline is watching Tallulah.

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See you next week!

PS If you missed #56, check it out here.

SRSLY #56: Blonde / Swallows & Amazons / All Creatures Great and Small

The Links

Blonde

Anna on Frank Ocean’s faith imagery.

The FADER panel about what Frank Ocean owes us.

Swallows & Amazons

The trailer.

The Mail bemoan the lack of “Titty”.

All Creatures Great and Small

The first episode.

For next time

Caroline is watching Tallulah.

If you’d like to talk to us about the podcast or make a suggestion for something we should read or cover, you can email srslypod[at]gmail.com.

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Our theme music is “Guatemala - Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #55, check it out here.

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SRSLY #55: Fleabag / The BFG / Naked Attraction

The Links

Fleabag

All the episodes on iPlayer.

One of the few reviews that actually got what the show is about ie not a remake of Bridget Jones’ Diary.

The BFG

The trailer.

The 1989 animated film.

Naked Attraction

The show on Channel 4.

Anna's piece about nudity on TV.

For next time

Anna is watching All Creatures Great and Small.

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See you next week!

PS If you missed #54, check it out here.

SRSLY #54: Stranger Things / Finding Dory / 8½

The Links

Elizabeth Minkel's piece on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Stranger Things

Anna on Stranger Things and reboot culture.

Winona, Forever by Soraya Roberts.

Heather Havrilevsky's interview with Winona Ryder.

Finding Dory

The trailer.

The NS review.

8½ 

The film on YouTube (with slightly dodgy subtitles).

For next time

Caroline is watching Naked Attraction.

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PS If you missed #53, check it out here.

SRSLY #53: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child / David Bowie Prom / Ask Polly

The Links

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Anna's piece about the inconsistencies between the world of the play and that of the books.

Her description of the play itself, after she went to the first night.

David Bowie Prom

Watch the whole concert on iPlayer.

Jude Rogers' review of the David Bowie Prom (she thought the opposite of us).

Ask Polly

The full archive of Heather Havrilesky (aka Polly) at The Cut.

For next time

Anna is watching 8½.

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PS If you missed #52, check it out here.

SRSLY #52: New Blood / Absolutely Fabulous / Bewitched

The Links

New Blood

Anna on the show's pitch-perfect portrayal of millennial life in London.

Huw Fullerton on New Blood's obsession with property.

Absolutely Fabulous

The trailer for the movie.

An interesting take on the way the show and now the film charts the evolution of celebrity.

Bewitched

The trailer.

An example of the universally negative critical reaction to the film.

For next time

Caroline is reading Ask Polly columns, like this one.

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Our theme music is “Guatemala - Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #51, check it out here.

SRSLY #51: Ghostbusters / Orange is the New Black / The Silent Woman

The Links

Ghostbusters

On the phenomenon of Ghostbusters nostalgia.

Ryan Gilbey’s review of the new film.

Orange is the New Black

The trailer for the fourth series.

The Vulture recaps are really good for micro episode analysis.

Emily Nussbaum on empathy in the show.

The Silent Woman

The book.

Janet Malcolm on Jonathan Bate’s biography of Ted Hughes.

For next time

Anna is watching the 2005 film Bewitched.

If you’d like to talk to us about the podcast or make a suggestion for something we should read or cover, you can email srslypod[at]gmail.com.

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Our theme music is “Guatemala - Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #50, check it out here.

SRSLY #50: Birthday Special

This week

For our first birthday, we look back over the last year of podcasting, and the pop culture highlights and lowlights of the last 12 months.

 

For next time

Caroline is reading The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm.

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See you next week!

PS If you missed #49, check it out here.

SRSLY #49: The Sewing Bee / The Essex Serpent / The Lady Vanishes

The Links

The Great British Sewing Bee

The latest series on iPlayer.

Some facts about the judges.

Caroline's favourite sewing instagram account.

The Essex Serpent

The book itself.

An interesting review by M John Harrison.

Sarah Perry on Twitter.

The Lady Vanishes

The trailer.

A good piece about the Hitchcock background to this adaptation.

For next time

Caroline is reading The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm.

If you’d like to talk to us about the podcast or make a suggestion for something we should read or cover, you can email srslypod[at]gmail.com.

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PS If you missed #48, check it out here.

SRSLY #48: Netrunner with Alex Hern

Caroline is joined for this special episode of the pop culture podcast by Alex Hern, tech reporter at the Guardian, who tells us all about why he is very, very serious about the living card game Netrunner.

SRSLY is usually hosted by Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz, the NS’s web editor and editorial assistant. We’re on Twitter as @c_crampton and @annaleszkie, where between us we post a heady mixture of Serious Journalism, excellent gifs and regularly ask questions J K Rowling needs to answer.

This week, Anna is on holiday, so Caroline was joined by Alex Hern to talk about Netrunner – you can find him @alexhern on Twitter.

If you'd like to find out more about our topic this week – Netrunner – check the links below in the guide that Alex has put together:

• Firstly, and most obviously, the best way to get into Netrunner is to pick up a core set, which contains 165 cards, rules, tokens and everything two people need to get playing. 
• The digital version of the game, which is less polished but, free and so quite good for someone curious about Netrunner, is Jinteki.net
• The latest "cycle" – a collection of six small packs – has been the Mumbad cycle, set in the sprawling megalopolis that spans Hyderabad and Mumbai. The announcement for the first pack, Kala Ghoda (named after a Mumbai neighbourhood), sets the tone for the location, and is also a good example of how the world of Netrunner evolves.
• The Tumblr writing project I ran for a year or so was The Netrunner Project. A mixture of fanfic, critical writing and play tips, it was moderately successful in the Netrunner community. The entry on Hedge Fund was the best I wrote, a short encapsulation of why I like cyberpunk in general. But Leigh Alexander's guest post was the best overall, and led to her writing her first novel, a tie-in to the Netrunner universe called Monitor.
• If you like the sound of the setting but can't be arsed with the actual game, just read Neuromancer.
• If you like the sound of the game but can't be arsed with the setting, bad news: there isn't anything quite like Netrunner in tabletop gaming. Just try not to look at the pictures on the cards, I guess.

And if you'd like to read Alex's piece about not being good at Hearthstone, you can find it here.

SRSLY #47: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child / Love and Friendship / Louis Theroux

The Links

Introduction

Our episode on A Bigger Splash (aka where Anna went on holiday).

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry is the book Caroline is currently obsessed with.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Anna's piece about her experience at the first performance.

Love and Friendship

Ryan Gilbey's interview with Whit Stillman, director of Love and Friendship.

Louis Theroux

A review of Drinking to Oblivion.

For next time

Anna is watching the 2013 remake of The Lady Vanishes.

If you’d like to talk to us about the podcast or make a suggestion for something we should read or cover, you can email srslypod[at]gmail.com.

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Our theme music is “Guatemala - Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #47, check it out here.

SRSLY #46: Peaky Blinders / Mustang / 30 Rock

The Links

Peaky Blinders

Peaky Blinders on iPlayer.

Sarah Hughes' recaps are worth catching up with.

Mustang

The trailer.

A review that called it “The Virgin Suicides in Anatolia”.

30 Rock

This will give you a good sense of the show.

For next time

Caroline is watching the two most recent Louis Theroux documentaries.

If you’d like to talk to us about the podcast or make a suggestion for something we should read or cover, you can email srslypod[at]gmail.com.

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Our theme music is “Guatemala - Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #45, check it out here.

SRSLY #45: Love, Nina / Internet Histories Week / The Secret in Their Eyes

The Links

Love, Nina

The first episode on iPlayer.

An interview with Nina Stibbe about the book.

Internet Histories Week

The index of all the posts in the series.

Our conversation about MSN Messenger.

The Secret in Their Eyes

The trailer.

For next week

Anna is watching 30 Rock.

If you’d like to talk to us about the podcast or make a suggestion for something we should read or cover, you can email srslypod[at]gmail.com.

You can also find us on Twitter @srslypod, or send us your thoughts on tumblr here. If you like the podcast, we’d love you to leave a review on iTunes - this helps other people come across it.

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Our theme music is “Guatemala - Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #44, check it out here.

#44: The Argonauts / Jane the Virgin / 20 Feet From Stardom

The Links

(7:10) The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Olivia Laing's review of The Argonauts for the NS.

Annalisa Quinn's essay on the book's efforts to reconcile feminism and domesticity.

(17:06) Jane the Virgin

The trailer for the first episode.

A piece on how scandal is more important than feasibility in enjoying the show.

(25:44) Twenty Feet from Stardom

The trailer for the film.

Lisa Fischer’s appearance on the Death, Sex and Money podcast.

For next week:

Caroline is watching El secreto de sus ojos, aka The Secret in Their Eyes.

If you’d like to talk to us about the podcast or make a suggestion for something we should read or cover, you can email srslypod[at]gmail.com.

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Our theme music is “Guatemala - Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #43, check it out here.

#43: The Hollow Crown / Not By Accident / Cry Baby

The Links

(04:10) The Hollow Crown

Watch the show on iPlayer.

Helen Lewis's piece on young male Shakespeare actors.

On staging the History plays.

(16:20) Not By Accident

Listen to the podcast.

(23:05) Cry Baby

The trailer.

Bustle on the weirdest parts of the movie.

For next week:

Anna is watching Twenty Feet From Stardom.

If you’d like to talk to us about the podcast or make a suggestion for something we should read or cover, you can email srslypod[at]gmail.com.

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Our theme music is “Guatemala - Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #42, check it out here.

SRSLY #42: Drake / Witless / The West Wing

The Links

The Victoria Wood Brief Encounter sketch.

(08:45) Drake – Views

The album on iTunes.

An interesting piece on the hometown connections the album has for Drake.

Pitchfork on Drake’s obsession with his own masculinity.

(14:22) Witless

Witless on BBC Three.

A funny clip from episode two.

(24:15) The West Wing pilot + The West Wing Weekly podcast

A clip from the first episode of The West Wing.

This is the episode of The West Wing Weekly Anna listened to. 

For next week:

Caroline is watching the John Waters film Cry-Baby.

If you’d like to talk to us about the podcast or make a suggestion for something we should read or cover, you can email srslypod[at]gmail.com.

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Our theme music is “Guatemala - Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #41, check it out here.