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SAMANTHA!!!!
TV drama  
SAMANTHA!!!!
And just like that ... season two of the most insane show currently airing on TV finished with a long-awaited return from Kim Cattrall.
Actor shade  
But it wasn't all roses. Sara Ramírez – who plays the roundly disliked Che Diaz – issued an angry statement on Instagram, after a recent Cut profile questioned if they were "in on the joke".
Riverdale slayed  
TV's other most insane show also ended this week – for good – after seven seasons which rose "up and up into the stratosphere of lunacy".
Jokes delayed  
Also absurd: the methods the Friends cast took to avoid gags they didn't like, including "[mumbling] the line through a mouthful of bacon", says one screenwriter.
Cook this
The bulb and the beautiful
The bulb and the beautiful
The bulb: garlic. The beautiful: the best garlic bread you will ever make.
Extremely online
Extremely online
Ronan Farrow on Elon Musk and Anna Silman on Merve Emre were somehow not the only reads this week. What ever happened to taste, and style in literature? What ever happened to getting drunk, and sexy AI? What ever happened to Gwyneth Paltrow’s body double in Shallow Hal?

Fun reads: on RyanAir’s negging TikTok account, on negging itself, and on YouTube subliminals. Nice reads: David Schurman Wallace on distraction, Werner Herzog on Pittsburgh and Isabella Trimboli on women’s diaries. 

Anti-porn Oppenheimer woman has some regrets – and the Cousin Greg Cat Person film has a trailer.
The funniest things on the internet
Madeleine Gray shows us her tabs
Madeleine Gray shows us her tabs
There's a very early-internet vibe to Madeleine's list. "I don't know how to use TikTok," the Green Dot author says.
Top of the list
A film – uplifting  
Adam Sandler and his daughters helm the sweet-natured You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah – but it’s Sunny Sandler who steals the show as the tweenage Stacy, whose vision for her big day is more turnt than Torah. On Netflix.
Adam Sandler and his daughters helm the sweet-natured You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah – but it’s Sunny Sandler who steals the show as the tweenage Stacy, whose vision for her big day is more turnt than Torah. On Netflix.
A film – dad drifting  
Pity be to anyone who missed it at the movies. Charlotte Well’s mesmerising and moving debut Aftersun is about a young father (Paul Mescal) and his 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Frankie Corio), on holiday in Turkey in the 90s. We gave it five stars in cinemas; now it's on Binge.
Pity be to anyone who missed it at the movies. Charlotte Well’s mesmerising and moving debut Aftersun is about a young father (Paul Mescal) and his 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Frankie Corio), on holiday in Turkey in the 90s. We gave it five stars in cinemas; now it's on Binge.
An album – shapeshifting  
Ashnikko's music sounds like brain worms personified. The TikTok breakout star started out making bawdy come-ons; their new album Weedkiller spans everything from "the pleasures of queer sex" to "fantastical treaties on the climate crisis".
Ashnikko's music sounds like brain worms personified. The TikTok breakout star started out making bawdy come-ons; their new album Weedkiller spans everything from
A book – good grifting  
Emma Cline's The Guest came out in May but it has ascended to that most coveted title: book of the (northern hemisphere) summer. It's about a sex worker who grifts her way through the Hamptons-esque elite over one holiday season that turns dark. A perfect, anxious beach read.
Emma Cline's The Guest came out in May but it has ascended to that most coveted title: book of the (northern hemisphere) summer. It's about a sex worker who grifts her way through the Hamptons-esque elite over one holiday season that turns dark. A perfect, anxious beach read.
This week's weirdest story
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This man has spent over $20,000 to live life as a border collie. Worth it!
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