Stranger Things’s third season is self-indulgent
Where season one had the creeping menace of Alien, the mood here is closer to Scooby-Doo
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Thursday
Scarlett Johansson should only be allowed to play Scarlett Johansson in movies about Scarlett Johansson
Actors playing the parts of characters with whom they share no lived experience is nothing new
Monday
The brief bravery of Scarlett Johansson
Perhaps the actress would be better off playing a tree than a person with convictions
Wednesday
Aziz Ansari: Right here and wrong now
Why is politically correct comedy so depressing?
Tristan Priskett reviews: Stranger Things 3
Would it not have led to a more meaningful narrative if the ‘monster’ the Russians had brought into being was in fact climate change?
Monday
Simon Nye on The Durrells of Corfu
Most of what I know about the Durrell family comes from Nye’s television series
Tuesday
Are viewers falling out of love with the Trump presidency?
Watching the Donald used to be unmissable television. What happened?
Saturday
Bob Dylan is rum and cokey
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese reviewed
Friday
The Unnamable Present with Roberto Calasso
My guest is a peerless explorer of what he calls the modern ‘revolution in the human brain’
Thursday
Black Mirror is broken
It’s a Twilight Zone for Millennials
Monday
The walk-off songs 2020 Democrats should be using
Less Springsteen, more Britney
My terrifying journey into the dark heart of far right comedy
At a fascist evening, nobody was decent enough to openly express their white supremacy
Sunday
Gorbachev’s war and peace
Meeting Gorbachev reviewed
Friday
Dr John, eminence gris-gris
In memory of a piano master
Monday
Love is the drug
The Souvenir reviewed
Sunday
Morrissey hasn’t turned right: our establishment has turned insane
Did the former Smiths frontman ever stop being a provocateur?
Friday
Transgender dogma is naive and incompatible with Freud
Many observers noticed a tension in LGBT+ ideology between social constructivism and (some kind of biological) determinism
Daenerys did nothing wrong
As a social justice warrior, I identify with her
Wednesday
Laura Loomer’s life after cancelation
Dominic Green and Art Tavana discuss the fate of the deplatformed provocateur
Tuesday
Swedes in space
Aniara reviewed
