Summary:   "My life's a shit show, Zabel." We are officially done with music movies and back to our regularly scheduled programming this week with a belated look at the very buzzy crime drama Mare of Easttown. Also discussed: Crying in H Mart, Summer of Soul and I Think You Should Leave.      Show notes:   "The Real Twist of Mare of Easttown" by Sophie Gilbert (The Atlantic)    "Crying in H Mart" (Michelle Zauner's essay in the New Yorker)   Summer of Soul review – the best concert film ever made? (Guardian)

 

Recommendations: Andrea G.: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (book)

Lisa: Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Dir: Questlove (documentary)

Andrea W.: I Think You Should Leave (Season 2) (Netflix)

 

Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive  CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed: "OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

 

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