📺 The media guide S6E9

There’s absolutely no new TV worth talking about this week, but there were a ton of killer albums on Friday. Plus a new movie from Darren Aronofsky and a new comic by James Tynion IV.

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📺 New shows

Nothing major or super important to check out this week!

Things will pick back up next week

📝 These might interest some folks though...

• Upload S4 (Amazon) — 25 Aug
• The Terminal List: Dark Wolf S1 (Amazon) — 27 Aug
• Katrina: Come Hell and High Water S1 (Netflix) — 27 Aug

Tuesday

• Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu) 1:4

Wednesday

• Platonic (Apple) 2:5
• Hard Knocks (HBO) 20:4

Thursday

• Digman! (CC) 2:6-7
• Peacemaker (HBO) 2:2

Friday

• Foundation (Apple) 3:8
• Chief of War (Apple) 1:6

Sunday

• Dexter: Resurrection (Paramount) 1:9

💽 Release of the week

💅 It’s A Beautiful Place by Water From Your Eyes

If I had to classify the genre of this album, I’d say it’s the most abstract “pop” could be. It sounds like two people just making fun sounds and rhythms. It’s as if you described what good “pop” music was to an alien and they tried to recreate it only from that description, without focusing on melody or hooks. Safe to say, it’s delightful.

🏃 Runner-ups

🚙 Luke’s Garage by Delicate Steve

Since I already featured an instrumental album last week, I held off on making this the release of the week, but this album is beautiful. The guitar is reminiscent of John Mayer and is perfect for relaxing under a warm sun.

🔪 Swallow the Knife by Sir Chloe

I thought Hot Mulligan or Royal Otis were going to snag this spot (or better), but Royal Otis disappointed, and Sir Chloe absolutely delivered (Hot Mulligan met expectations). It’s a fun alternative rock album with a broad range of songs, but all of them are a blast.

📝 What else?

• Live Laugh Love by Earl Sweatshirt
• Guitar by Mac DeMarco
• BIG MONEY by Jon Batiste
• The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still by Hot Mulligan
• I Barely Know Her by sombr
• hickey by Royel Otis
• Rocket by Dominic Fike

🦸 No. 1’s

🫥 The Invisible Man [Universal Monsters] (Image)

James Tynion IV is tackling another Universal Monster book after the excellent Dracula. This time he's joined by Dani on art, who has worked on some fun books in the past, including Coffin Bound, The Low, Low Woods, and some art for 3W3M.

🧠 Masterminds (Dark Horse)

The newest book from writer Zach Kaplan, who previously wrote Kill All Immortals (which also has part two coming later this year), teams up with artist Stephen Thompson, who has chiefly worked on licensed books to this point. This book is about a secret society in the tech/gaming industry that leads our protagonist into deadly puzzles.

🕐 Some other 1's

• Stay Out of the Woods (Image)
• Hellboy and the BPRD: Professor Harvey is Gone (Dark Horse)
• Immortal Legend Batman (DC)
• The Mortal Thor (Marvel)

📝 What else?

• We're Taking Everyone Down with Us #5 (Image)
• You'll Do Bad Things #6 (Image)
• Minor Arcana #10 (Boom)
• Kaya #29 Preview (Image)
• Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring #2 (IDW)
• Lost Fantasy #4 (Image)
• Sleep #4 (Image)
• Monstress #59 (Image)
• The Voice Said Kill #2 (Image)
• News from the Fallout #3 (Image)
• Benjamin #3 (Oni)
• Lazarus Fallen #3 (Image)
• Geiger #17 (Image)
• Absolute Wonder Woman #11 (DC)
• Absolute Martian Manhunter #6 (DC)

🎥 New movies

🏃 Caught Stealing

I’m probably more excited about this than I should be. The trailer looks like a lot of fun, and Darren Aronofsky has made some great movies in the past, especially Black Swan. Caught Stealing is the first film he’s trying to make for a wider audience again, after some pretty wild movies like Mother! and The Whale. Who knows if it will live up to those expectations, though.

☢️ The Toxic Avenger

The Peter Dinklage and Kevin Bacon-starring R-rated “superhero” flick is finally out of purgatory. No one thought this crazy movie would be commercially viable, so no one picked it up to distribute—until now. The fact no one wanted to distribute it is reason enough to be intrigued and see it.

🔪 The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix)

This seems to be getting torn to shreds already, but critics likely aren’t the audience for this one. Plus, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren join up for the second time this year after the sleeper hit Mob Land.

🏚️ Vice is Broke (Mubi)

And finally, the documentary that caused quite a stir after some accusations were made about Mubi holding this film, following criticism of its investors’ ties to Israeli Defense. I still see Vice as a big missed opportunity to be a leader in new media that completely fell apart.

📝 What else?

• The Roses
• Love, Brooklyn
• A Little Prayer
• American Sweatshop

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