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This week on Slate Plus, the critics speak to Slate Plus editor Gabe Roth on digital mourning.
On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, the gabbers discuss The Meddler, a new film by Lorene Scafaria, a mommy satire that’s also a portrait of a woman evading her own grief. Does it entrance the gabbers? Next up, the British show The Night Manager proved a success among British audiences, but will it receive such high praise in the United States? Finally, Steve talks with Dan and June about his article, “Donald Trump, Baby Boomer,” and why Trump is best understood as a terrifying product of his generation.
Links to some of the things we discussed this week follow:
- Catcher in the Rye
- Independence Day
- Lolita
- Pale Fire
- Grandma
- House
- Jeeves and Wooster
- The Night Manager, AMC stream
- The Night Manager, by John le Carré
- Broadchurch
- Hot Fuzz
- Twenty Twelve
- London Spy
- Steve’s Slate piece, “Donald Trump, Baby Boomer”.
- Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven, The Famous Five
- Slate’s DoubleX Gabfest
- Slate’s Political Gabfest
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Endorsements:
June: New York Times newsletter Watching by Margaret Lyons.
Dan: Pieces of April (2003) directed by Peter Hedges, including Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields’ soundtrack, especially the track “All I Want to Know.”
Steve: “Enid Blyton, Moral Guide” by Nakul Krishna in Aeon.
Outro: “Donald Trump (Black Version)” by the Time
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