Pop Catch-Up!
We play catch-up on the pop culture we consumed while apart, including:

Streaming

• "The Chair," a university drama with Sandra Oh as a department's beleaguered chair
• "Kate," an action thriller with assassin Mary Elizabeth Winstead searching for the people who poisoned her
• "The Lovebirds," a rom-com with Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani as a couple trying to solve a murder as their relationship falls apart
• "The Defeated," a series with Chicago cop Taylor Kitsch searching post-WWII Berlin for his schizophrenic brother while helping a German policewoman fight violent crime
• "Audrey," a documentary about the film star Audrey Hepburn
• "Into the Night" (season 2), with  a handful of people struggling to survive the sun's deadly gamma rays ... and each other

Novels

• "The Rose Code," by Kate Quinn
• "Once Upon a River," by Diane Setterfield
• "The Elfstones of Shannara," Terry Brooks