"Streaming & Novels"
Kate and Steve offer their opinions of these pop culture offerings:

Streaming

• "The Pursuit of Love," a period miniseries starring Lily James and Emily Beecham as two cousins seeking love. Written and directed by Emily Mortimer.
• "Solos," a new drama anthology "about what it means to be human." 
• "Schmigadoon!", a comedy that celebrates musicals even while parodying them. Cecily Strong and Keegan Michael Key are trapped in a town where everything's a musical. 
• "Ted Lasso," Season 2. A sports psychologist (Sarah Niles) makes life uncomfortable for gee-whiz soccer coach Ted.
• "Blood Red Sky," a horror thriller in which terrorists taking  over a plane don't realize a vampire's on board.

Novels

• "Mongrels,"  by Stephen Graham Jones. Indigenous take on a werewolf story.
• "The Round House," by Louise Erdrich. An Ojibwe boy seeks justice  for a crime that transforms his family.
• "The Turkish Gambit," by Boris Akunin.  Russian detective extraordinaire Fandorin investigates treachery during the Russian/Ottoman Empire war. 
• "The Girls," by Emma Cline. A young woman becomes involved with a cult.
• "Long Knife," by James Alexander Thom. George Rogers Clark battles the British, makes friends with native Americans, and romances a beauty.

Popahallics #50 Playlist
Sample tunes from "Schmigadoon!",  the surprisingly modern sounds of "The Pursuit of Love," and more. Listen here.