Thirty minutes of estate-porn foreplay preclude what the Cassandras call “a real-life yuppie New York soap opera” and “salacious tabloid fodder with a veneer of respectability.” As per Grace Fraser’s city escape in The Undoing: is there a state more HBO than Connecticut?

Also:

Should you donate 10 dollars to Film Forum?

Is Beta O Rourke the biggest Beta in Texas?

Is Tulum in Cancun?

What are Daft Punk’s pronouns?

Is Mamma Mia better than Ratatouille The Musical?

Is Elliot with 2 T’s the winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race?

Should the Girls HBO reunion be in Abu Dhabi?

Is the Fake Famous director a charmless opportunist?

Is Jenna Lyons permitted any non sequiturs?

When Naomi Fry writes about something will we watch it?

Should TFW No GF cancel Letterboxd?

What do incels and influencers have in common?

Are Goodreads reviewers adult Disney fans?

Who will pull Simone Weil out of the void of suburbanization?

Is the Adam Curtis doc Little Britain for smart people?

Which Fred Armisen character is Josh Harris?

Are Ion Pack or Red Scare the superior interviewers?

Was anything besides Chloe Fineman good in the Christian Cowan show?

Is Joe Castle Baker joining the cast of SNL?

Are zoomer models indebted to Trisha Paytas?

Is Cruella in the same cinematic universe as La La Land?

Can Cassandra talk herself to death?

(Part 1 of 2; in Part 2 we review Nomadland.)