😿 crying out the crazy

Going to keep the preamble short this week as we have a packed issue as I try to catch up on all of the things we missed over the last couple weeks. Tons of TV and comics to check out, plus a new Tyler album I'm loving and a stunning new animated movie.

📺 New Shows

⛩️ Interior Chinatown S1 (Hulu) — 18 Nov

I'm a huge fan of Jimmy O. Yang, from his work on Silicon Valley and his stand-up specials, as well as Ronny Chieng, from The Daily Show and his stand-up. So to bring them together in this show based on the novel of the same name is exciting. Add on to that, Taika Waititi is an EP and directed an episode plus the author, Charles Yu, is the one bringing it to the screen. Yang plays an Asian-American dealing with stereotypes as a struggling actor and the whole season is out now on Hulu.

🕺 A Man on the Inside S1 (Netflix) — 21 Nov

The first new Mike Schur show since The Good Place, although he's helped to bring a ton of great comedies to TV as a producer since then. He's bringing Ted Danson along for the ride, who plays a retired man who becomes a mole for an investigation into a retirement home. It also features Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn-99) and Mary Elizabeth Willis (It's Always Sunny).

🔎 Based on a True Story S2 (Peacock) — 21 Nov

I never got around to the first season of this, but I'm still interested, even if I was surprised it got a second season.

🫦 The Sex Lives of College Girls S3 (HBO) — 21 Nov

And, lastly, this show, which I watched the first few episodes of and found to be hilarious, but since my wife binged it without me on a flight, I haven't taken the time to catch up.

👀 What We Missed

🏛️ The Diplomat (Netflix) — 31 Oct

I was late to S1, but once we started watching it, I was pretty hooked. They nailed the format, flow, and characters; Keri Russell grabs your attention in a way few can and Rufus Swell as Hal is the secret weapon that makes it all run. We already finished S2 and it's just as great as the first.

🙊 Say Nothing (Hulu) — 14 Nov

A period drama spanning four decades in Northern Ireland, based on the non-fiction book by Patrick Radden Keefe. I don't know much else about this other than the fact I love PRK's writing and I hope they do his book justice (even if I haven't read this specific one...)

And the rest of these are all still airing now:

• Invincible Fight Girl (Adult Swim)
• The Day of the Jackal (Peacock)
• Landman (Paramount)
• Yellowstone S5-Pt2 (Peacock/Paramount Network)
• It's Florida, Man (HBO)
• Silo S2 (Apple)
• Bad Sisters S2 (Apple)
• Dune: Prophecy (HBO)
• Very Important People S2 (Dropout)
• Arcane S2 (Amazon)

Monday

• What We Do in the Shadows (FX/Hulu) 6:7

Tuesday

• Interior Chinatown (Hulu) S1

Wednesday

• Shrinking (Apple) 2:7
• Bad Sisters (Apple) 2:3

Thursday

• Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount) 5:6
• The Day of the Jackal (Peacock) 1:7
• A Man on the Inside (Netflix) S1
• Based on a True Story (Peacock) S2

Friday

• It's Florida, Man (HBO) 1:6
• Silo (Apple) 2:2
• Very Important People (Dropout) 2:2
• The Sex Lives of College Girls (HBO) 3:1

Sunday

• From (MGM) 3:10
• The Franchise (HBO) 1:8
• Special Ops: Lioness (Paramount) 2:6
• Somebody Somewhere (HBO) 3:5
• Invincible Fight Girl (Adult Swim) 1:5
• Arcane (Amazon) 2:7-9
• Yellowstone (Paramount) 5:11
• Landman (Peacock) 1:3
• Dune: Prophecy (HBO) 1:2

💽 Best Release

🤿 CHROMAKOPIA by Tyler, the Creator

This is the only new album I've spent any real time with over the last few weeks, unfortunately, but I think Tyler delivered another all-timer with CHROMAKOPIA. I was a huuuuge fan of IGOR and think it's one of the greatest hip-hop albums every and this feels like a follow-up to that more so than his other albums, but with some more actual rapping from Tyler. And where IGOR felt like it was in conversation a bit with Flower Boy, CHROMAKOPIA feels like it's in conversation with CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST.

Some Others

• Too Cold to Hold by Warmduscher
• Free Help by Heart to Gold
• The Crossroads by Cordae
• Heavy Glory by Elias Rønnenfelt

🦸 No. 1's

🚀 The Rocketfellers (Ghost Machine // Image)

A cosmic time traveling book in the Ghost Machine universe from writer Peter Tomasi and writer/artist Francis Manapul. Tomasi was Geoff Johns partner in crime as a writer back in the Green Lantern days and Manapul drew Johns' Flash that led to Flashpoint and the New 52. So it all comes full circle in this one.

🌈 Spectrum (Mad Cave)

It's a bit surprising for me to be featuring another Mad Cave book, but here we are and this one looks and sounds wild. It comes from a creative team I have no familiarity with in Rick Quinn and Dave Chisholm. I don't think there's any way to talk about this book though, so if you want an idea you can read a blurb here.

🐕 The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs (Image)

Another Horizon Experiment book with another creative team I'm unfamiliar with. Novelist Tananarive Due is joined by newcomer artist Kelsey Ramsey about East African werewolves secretly living in Miami.

👀 1's We Missed

• FML (Dark Horse)
  • This is the book I regret missing out on talking about the most during our little break. Kelly Sue DeConnick is back and joined by David López on art in a book heavily inspired by DeConnick's life featuring a mother and her son dealing with the horrors of modern day life and a murder mystery.
• G.I. Joe (Skybound)
  • Joshua Williamson and Tom Reilly finally bring us the G.I. Joe book after a couple years of other Energon books.
• Black Hammer: Spiral City (Dark Horse)
  • And Jeff Lemire is back with his Black Hammer universe.
• Absolute Superman (DC)
  • Of course, there is the third Absolute book from Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval as they reinvent the character for the Absolute universe.
• Bloody Mary (Silver Sprocket)
  • And lastly, I just wanted to give Silver Sprocket a little shout out. You should definitely check them out.
• Arcbound (Dark Horse)
• Granite State Punk: The Coven (Scout)
• Batgirl (DC)
• JSA (DC)
• One For Sorrow (DSTLRY)
• Living Hell (Dark Horse)
• It Happened on Hyde Street: Devour (Image)
• Jessica Farms (Fantagraphics)
• Dwellings: All Hallows' Eve Special (Oni)

📝 So Many Good Books This Week

• Worn Tuff Elbow (Drawn and Quarterly) #3
• Where Monsters Lie: Cull-De-Sac (Dark Horse) #2
• Thundercats (Dynamite) #10
• Nullhunter (Image) #2
• Mugshots (Mad Cave) #4
• The Moon Is Following Us (Image) #3
• Ice Cream Man (Image) #42
• House of Slaughter (Boom) #27
• Geiger (Ghost Machine // Image) #8
• The Department of Truth (Image) #27
• Black Cloak (Image) #10
• The Power Fantasy (Image) #4

🎥 New Movies

📹 Surveilled (HBO Documentary) — 20 Nov

A new doc from Ronan Farrow about the "insidious ways in which our daily lives are being surveilled by the state."

🐱 Flow

This new animated film from Latvia is going to be a heavy favorite for Best Animated Film at the Oscars this year. There's no talking, just animals doing their thing and the sounds they make are actual recorded animals. It looks stunning and beautiful and all the things you'd want from a movie like this. I can't wait to see it.

And of course, you already know about these next two.

• Wicked
• Gladiator II

👀 What We Missed

• Juror #2
• Emilia Pérez
• A Real Pain
• Here
• Blitz

That's a wrap for us. Stay tuned next week to find out how the world decides to throw us all for another loop.

Be kind and stay sane,

—kevin