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📺 The media guide S6E13

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📺 The media guide S6E13
Cris Saur (2016)

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I'm tired; you’re tired; we’re all tired. So let’s pretend I wrote something super deep, meaningful, and poignant here.

~Round of applause commences~

Wonderful, thank you, thank you, thank you! I couldn’t have done it without you. But let’s not dwell on how wonderful I am. Let’s get on with the show!

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what's new on tv this week

📺 New shows

🪑 The Chair Company S1 (HBO) — 12 Oct

It’s Tim Robinson’s year, and we are just living in it. Friendship didn’t quite hit for me, though. Robinson has a schtick, and I’m not sure it works outside of sketch comedy because he's always at an 11. It gets old very fast in longer settings, so it’ll be interesting to see how it does when we get one episode a week and whether that will wear me down or not.

🏈 Chad Powers S1 (Hulu) — 30 Sep

Following Ted Lasso’s footsteps, taking a small gag from a TV sketch, and turning it into a full-blown sitcom. This time, Glen Powell steps in for Eli Manning in the titular role of Chad Powers.

😄 Smiling Friends S3 (Adult Swim) — 5 Oct

This is one of those animated shows I feel like I should be watching, but I have never taken the time to really try to get into it and understand what it is.

🥾 Boots S1 (Netflix) — 09 Oct

I honestly have no idea what this is, but I'm getting the sense it could be a sleeper hit in the same way Adolescence was earlier this year, except Boots would be the comedy version of that (I think).

📝 What else?

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days based on streaming availability for the majority of people

Tuesday

  • Only Murder in the Building (Hulu) 5:7
  • Chad Powers (Hulu) 1:3

Wednesday

  • The Lowdown (FX) 1:4
  • Slow Horses (Apple) 5:3

Thursday

  • South Park (Paramount) 27:5
  • Gen V (Amazon) 2:6
  • Boots (Netflix) S1
  • The Last Frontier (Apple) 1:1-2

Friday

  • Peacemaker (HBO) 2:8

Sunday

  • Last Week Tonight (HBO) 12:26
  • Task (HBO) 1:6
  • The Chair Company (HBO) 1:1
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we listened to 24 new albums Friday to give you the best ones

💽 Release of last week

🍀 Big Lucky by Peter McPoland

Last week was an excellent week for new music. All five of the runner-ups I have below are from last week as well, and honestly, this pick could've been any of them. Peter McPoland creates a whole vibe with this record. It's upbeat, the guitar is killer, there's some light Midwest emo motifs mixed with those Alex G vibes we love around here. It just rocks.

💽 Release of this week

🔊 Beautiful Noise by Pynch

And then there’s this past Friday... where it was also hard to pick a favorite, but for very different reasons—absolutely nothing stood out. Still, I think Beautiful Noise is my favorite and most complete album of the week. There were a few albums that had fast starts, but completely lost the plot, and others that were fun, but just never elevated into being something more than just a regular ol' Friday release.

🏃 Runner-ups

🪿 Getting Killed by Geese

I struggled with Geese's previous albums. They never really felt like they had anything unique or new to offer. Still, after their singer, Cameron Winter, released his solo album (our #10 of 2024), it feels like that energy has been infused into the album to create something greater than the sum of its parts.

🏓 Kids Table by Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes is another band that never really did it for me either, but more than two decades after they made waves, they are back with one of their best albums after last year's lackluster effort.

📘 Hallo by SONS

SONS are new to me, but Hallo is an excellent percussive and propulsive rock album. It feels raw while still having a bit of that pop-punk flair, albeit without the super catchy choruses.

🦴 bones by Rainbow Kitten Surprise

I loved RKS' "How to:" album (it was my album of the year in '18), but I hated their last album. This one feels like a return to form. Even though it doesn't hit those same highs as "How to:," it's still a ton of fun.

🛣️ Hard Road by Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Kingfish is showing us the Blues are still alive and well. He absolutely shreds through this entire album, and I feel a bit bad that Marcus King released his new album on the same day because Kingfish completely outshines him in every respect.

📝 What else?

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this weeks best comic releases

🦸 No. 1’s

👿 Good Devils Don't Play Fair with Evil (Image)

Nick Dragotta (East of West, Absolute Batman) and David Brothers team up again for this 64-page single issue containing three different stories. Dragotta's art is always worth picking up, no matter what the story is.

👹 The Last Day of H. P. Lovecraft (Boom)

I know nothing about this book or the creative team—apparently it's an adaptation of a French graphic novel—but that cover is haunting.

🦖 Starship Godzilla (IDW)

The new Godzilla comic universe continues to expand, this time with Mechagodzilla in space by the creative team of Chris Gooch and Oliver Ono.

🛖 Something is Killing the Children: A Monster Hunter Walks Into a Bar (Boom)

This is a single-issue companion to SIKTC that collects the six parts serialized in Hello Darkness issues into one 40-page comic.

📛 Marian Heretic (Boom)

A new fantasy series from Tini Howard and artist Joe Jaro comes a very different book with a tagline that includes "nunsploitation, religious horror, and rebellion." Apparently, the main character is both a nun and a witch hunter.

📰 High Strangeness (Oni)

This might be the most intriguing release of the week as Oni teams with the production company SpectreVision, founded by Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah, for stories influenced by documented cases of UFOs. For this issue, Daniel Noah is joined by Chris Condon for writing duties, while Dave Chisholm takes art duties. The tagline gives it a very James Tynion Blue Book feeling, but I'll be curious to see if they can make it their own.

And some more

📝 What else?

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movies hitting the big screen this week

🎥 New movies

🤼 The Smashing Machine

I saw this last Friday. It was good. Not great. The Rock and Emily Blunt are terrific in it, but it's also not anything like what I expected it to be. I thought it was going to be a bit of a gonzo film, rich in violent UFC fighting. Instead, it was a very personal profile of a man dealing with addiction and life as he tries to make a life for himself.

🪷 Anemone

Dying to see this. Daniel Day-Lewis comes out of retirement to act in a movie he co-wrote with his son—known as a fine artist—who is making his feature debut as a director. The trailer looks moody and patient, and Day-Lewis has literally never put on a bad performance.

🦵 If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Rose Byrne has been all over my TV (and killing it) lately with Physical and then Platonic, both on Apple TV. Now it seems like she's cashing in that goodwill for what appears to be an Oscar-worthy performance, from all accounts.

🍬 John Candy: I Like Me

Colin Hanks directs this documentary about the great John Candy. It drops on Prime Video on the 10th, which is probably a good enough reason to fire up a quick trial in order to watch it.

📝 What else?

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