Southern Gothic has tricks up its sleeves. It smiles as it strikes. And it’s nothing if not full of contradictions. It’s about poverty and privilege. It’s about mental illness and machinations. It’s drenched in body odor and honeysuckle. And HBO’s newest series, Sharp Objects, based on the book by Gillian Flynn of Gone Girl fame, is Southern Gothic at its grittiest and greatest.
Bekah is girl-crushing on Stacey Vanek Smith from NPR. Move on Inskeep, there’s a new NPR crush in town!
Beautiful Boy will remind you that you have working tear ducts.
This week The Bachelorette gave us a bunch of goths drinking at an unhappy hour, an appearance by Governor Ralph Northam, oyster harvesting, and one of the bachelors coming unglued.
It’s like the frosé of Marvel movies!
