All posts tagged: best TV shows

One of TV’s best slow-burn couples

One of TV’s best slow-burn couples

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Karen Ostergren, a deputy copy chief who has worked at The Atlantic for more than a decade. Karen is an avid runner who enjoys listening to other people talk about running—Ali Feller’s podcast is her favorite—and who recently visited an exhibit in New York about the sport’s history. On the other end of her content consumption spectrum, she likes tuning in to Abbott Elementary, escaping into the lush world of fantasy and romance novels, and watching football (and keeping up with the latest Jason Kelce memes). First, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic: The Culture Survey: Karen Ostergren My favorite way of wasting time on my phone: When Elon Musk bought Twitter—even before …

‘Fargo’ Comes Full Circle – The Atlantic

‘Fargo’ Comes Full Circle – The Atlantic

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This article contains spoilers through the Season 5 finale of Fargo. In the latest season of Fargo, one scene is re-created from the 1996 movie on which the show is based—but with a twist. The first episode finds Juno Temple’s character, Dorothy Lyon, known as Dot, watching TV and knitting on the couch when two masked kidnappers enter. It’s the same scenario that, in the Coen brothers’ original film, Jean Lundegaard (played by Kristin Rudrüd) finds herself in. But whereas a panicked Jean is quickly captured after she tumbles down the stairs, Dot fights back. Armed with household items, she burns the face of one of her potential captors. Although she eventually gets taken, she subsequently frees herself, booby-trapping the gas-station convenience store that she runs into for safety. At the end of the pilot, it’s unclear what this plot inversion represents, or how we’re supposed to feel about the vulnerable yet resilient Dot. Is she a brutal killer with a smiling facade? A villain disguised as a sweetie pie? Audiences have seen the “midwestern …

The year’s best movies, TV shows, and books

The year’s best movies, TV shows, and books

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Spend time with our writers’ picks this weekend. Universal Pictures December 29, 2023, 5 PM ET This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. This was the year of the sold-out stadium tour, double-feature mania, celebrity memoirs (and documentaries), and superhero fatigue. It was also the year of the Hollywood strike, controversy over book bans, and the rise of AI music. The Atlantic’s Culture team looked back on 2023 and compiled lists of the year’s best movies, TV shows, albums, books, and podcasts. Spend some time with their picks this weekend. First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Best of 2023 Dusty Deen for The Atlantic The 10 Best Films of 2023 By David Sims “I opted for a mix of old and new, small and giant … from a modest YouTube documentary to a near-billion-dollar-grossing dramatic extravaganza. The business is still figuring itself out, …

Airlines have an accountability problem

Airlines have an accountability problem

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Southwest Airlines was just ordered to pay a whopping fine for last year’s holiday breakdown. The penalty is a step toward accountability, but it tackles only a slice of the industry’s broader problems. First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: A Step Toward Accountability The lines at the airport were cataclysmic. Travelers with haunted looks behind their eyes stretched out on jackets and backpacks. During one of the busiest travel weeks of the year, Southwest Airlines was in shambles. If you were lucky enough to not be affected by the chaos, here’s a reminder of what happened: Around this week last year, Southwest’s system crumbled under a triple whammy of bad weather, an archaic scheduling system, and communication failures. Nearly 17,000 flights were canceled, and 2 million people’s trips were disrupted, scrambling Christmas plans for families around …