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It’s a weird time of year.
For one, summer is winding down. (Boo!) But also fall—and all the new TV, football, and pumpkin spice lattes it brings with it—is back. (Yay!) So that means we have a hodgepodge of weird stuff to talk about on The Monitor this week.
First of all, fall has brought with it the preliminary offerings of Oscar season. This week’s case-in-point: Sicario, a wonderful action-thriller about the war on drugs along the US-Mexico border. However, it’s still early in the prestige picture season, so we also have a few clunkers (::cough:: Hotel Transylvania 2, Stonewall ::cough::) to talk about, too.
On the boob tube we’re just starting to get into new shows like Scream Queens and old shows with new faces like Stephen Colbert on The Late Show and Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, and in our headphones we’re vibing to the new Disclosure album and Bleachers’ Terrible Thrills Vol. 2. We’ve got editors and contributors Jordan Crucchiola, Peter Rubin, K.M. McFarland, and Angela Watercutter on the mic and we’re ready to scream the praises of everything we can’t get enough of this week.
A few helpful links for things we talk about in the podcast:
-Jordan Crucchiola’s piece on Eli Roth’s data-driven approach to getting butts into theater seats -Angela Watercutter’s story on why Sicario is the second season of True Detective we deserved -Peter Rubin’s essay on Trevor Noah’s first night on The Daily Show -Bleachers’ Terrible Thrills Vol. 2 -Jordan Crucchiola’s rundown of what you need to know about sorority horror before watching Scream Queens
