Legion is the perfect follow-up show for Marvel’s Wandavision

Last weekend kicked off with the hotly anticipated premiere of Jack Snyder’s boasting four-hour 2017 holiday Justice League Beginning with Falcon and Winter SoldierSubsequent Vandavision The slate is underway at Disney for the MCU tie-in streaming show. And as if they were not both Enough To chew on, we had a ton of other exciting new (and old!) Films SAS: Red Notice And the dark romantic comedy led by Joel McHale and Kerry Biese to happily flip through the first brisk and beautiful weekend of spring.

For us, our weekend media of choice has ranged from cerebral MCU-sedentary thrillers to television meta-comedies and found footage horror films about invasive disease. Oh, and a podcast and audiobook was thrown there for entertainment! Here are some shows and movies that we are enjoying watching now, and which you can also watch.

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The Force, season 1

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Vandavision A narcuva is a gateway drug. My husband and I got out of the habit of watching TV together, but the MCU’s Big Mystery Show pulled us back in, because if we didn’t watch the show during the 24-hour landing, social media would do well all weekend. Did not understand . And once we find ourselves on the couch on Friday night, we crave more superhero action. So we went through the first season Agent carter, Then circled around at the end Legion, A very ballyhooed non-MCU starring Marvel series GuestDan Stevens as a super-powerful psychic with a serious purity problem.

This series has deep roots in Marvel comics, but since it is not technically part of the MCU, there is no major deviation, no speculation or Easter eggs to collect connections or destroy them to worry about. Is: Season 1 is just the story of a man who thinks he’s crazy, and could be something else. It comes with a massive David Lynch energy, a hefty dose of surreal scene, alternating every episode with Aubrey Plaza and Flight of leashesJeanine Clement and Watchman’s Jean Smart all hummed it, and with the brightest colors you could ever see in a TV series. It is strange and often disturbing and nightmare, but also beautiful. —Tasha Robinson

Legion Is streaming on Hulu.

And everything else we are looking for …

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The bay

Photo: Roadside Attractions

The lens of the COVID-19 pandemic will cover everything I’ve seen for the foreseeable future. How can it not happen? The magnitude of the disaster took a tremendous amount of life and disrupted every other person on the planet. There is no escaping this, but seeing life in fiction in a similar way would make a lot more sense in some films than others. in The bay, it is inevitable.

The bay Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson (rain Man, Natural) After completely dropping out of its element, found footage movie about the outbreak of meat-eating isopods in the Chesapeake Bay while orchestrating mix-media. Levinson reportedly hoped to make a real documentary about environmental issues facing the east coast of Maryland, but wound up with a bit more bite in real-world clips and scientific claims. The film finds various local people and transplants, who deal with the discovery of water-based Simothoa Agua, Who begin by consuming the tongues of Gulf fish populations, then turn to their blood-sucking interests for humans. As the CDC fights to find a solution, the iPhone, an array of Skype, news camera sources capture the apocalyptic landscape. It is gross as hell.

The bay Mistakenly misses many haunting images from the past year: stuffed hospitals, fouling doctors, and bureaucratic systems completely closed and for the protection of citizens. Levinson takes it in extreme passages – the abscess makeup effect is over the top, and there are many scenes involving vomiting that some will not be able to stomach – but find an even deeper connection to our predicate. Unlike the possibilities of nuclear war in the 1980s, which On the day of And other cold-war “what if?” The films were able to give a full feel to the audience at the time, Hollywood has mostly dropped the ball when faced with the issue of climate change and the existence of man-made ecological degradation. People are not afraid of the world temperature rising a few degrees because they cannot imagine it. Movies may use special effects and human stories to fill those spaces on a blockbuster scale, but wrapping stories around those ideas may not be four-quadrant-ready. The bay

Wasn’t huge either, but this provocative nature feels someday we should see pop artists more often than not. The mutated isopod is clearly the result of toxic dumping in the Chesapeake Bay, and the way Levinson connects the dots to the melting bodies of the Doters from IRL news reports goes a long way in selling the idea, while it is for now. Imagination can occur, it will not be forever. –Matte patch

The bay Is streaming on Hbo max.

Planet wealth buys a superhero

Photo: Sienna May / NPR

I spent most of the weekend painting in the interior of my house, a bunch of walls attached to the kitchen, up the stairs to the second floor landing. This means that my eyeballs were busy brainwashing that barely short edge between the top of the wall and the roof for the better part of two days. But my ears were clear to dip into the independent and my podcast backlog… which ran out a little after lunch on Sunday.

That’s when I turned to the Planet Money Podcast. Now, you might not find business economics interesting at all. I don’t either – unless this Planet Money team is one of their big gonzo journalism projects. It is the same crew that produced a T-shirt and has moved from a cotton field in Arkansas to the streets of Bangladesh and back to the states, a project that was funded by a $ 590,000 Kickstarter campaign. These big swings are always interesting, and this is no exception.

Right now, Planet Money wants to buy its own superhero, and then exploits that superhero for all its value. It begins when they show up at Marvel headquarters with a suitcase full of money, and from there dive into the bow of the Golden Age of comics and beyond. You can expect to learn a lot about intellectual property law and licensing over the next few months. Here’s hoping they finally dive into the weird world of comics distribution.

Best of all, Planet Money’s work is being funded by a pre-order of the comic. But beware of spoilers! Yes, spoilers for a National Public Radio podcast. Do not click on the pre-order link until you have made it through at least 2 episodes. There are three episodes right now, and they are scattered in the show’s regular podcast feed. We have helped them below. You can also find them on the podchacker of your choice. -Charley Hall

Review, season 3

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I was a big fan reviewAbout the Comedy Central mockumentary series Forrest McNeil, a professional critic who reviews… well, life. Also called on his fictional show review, Forrest – played by the ever-sunny Andy Daley – requests Twitter users to review what’s next, which he always accepts disastrous consequences, such as in the first episode when he “steals” and “drug addiction” Reviews.

Forrest’s commitment to his ridiculous work review Some of the most arresting comedies in recent memory are a sublime work of brittle workmanship that sits on the nexus of crutch comedy and horror satire. The series was short-lived, but also ended on its own terms – or at least, I’d heard it, because over the years reviewThe final season after its 2017 telecast was not streaming anywhere, and I didn’t have cable at the time.

However, I do have Paramount Plus, which includes the entire Comedy Central library – and the review’s brief three-episode final season. and you know what? The show holds. While it doesn’t reach the highs of the show’s first season (ie the episode where Forrest reviews pancakes and is divorcing) the final season is both a work of comedy genius and a bit of thesis statement in Forrest. Works for obsessive devotion to his job and fundamental parochiality ultimately leads to some consequences – which, of course, would be a review for him. Five stars. —Joshua River

review Is streaming on Paramount plus.

Station eleven

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I pulled out a copy of Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel Station eleven In late 2019, inspired by my excitement in anticipation Atlanta Television announced for director Hiro Murai’s HBO Max starring Mackenzie DavisHalt and catch fire, black Mirror) And Himesh Patel (yesterday, theory) Belongs to. On a whim, I opened it in early March of last year, trying to cram in some much-needed leisure reading during my spring break of graduate school. Then COVID-19 happened. It took me no more than six chapters before I realized that reading about post-apocalyptic North America after a global pandemic was not doing my mental health any favors at the time and keeping it aside for later Chosen.

I picked up the book again a month ago, this time through an audible audiobook narrated by Kirsten Potter, and was quickly absorbed by it. Set 20 years after the fall of human civilization due to a massive contagion known as the Georgia flu, the novel follows members of a theatrical company known as the Traveling Symphony, a sociopathic self. Are chased by a death cult led by the proclaimed prophet. Made for a powerfully moving experience with Mandler’s poignant poetry and unintentionally moving prose, as well as Potter’s beautiful melanochical narration, after several moments in the book that left me on the verge of tears. While uncommonly an apocalyptic sci-fi novel, Station eleven There is indeed a love letter to the fragility of our modern world and to the numerous, unnatural, yet consequent acts of grace and malice that rest on our shared existence and shape our future. I can’t wait to see what content Hiro Murai brings. —Tausing Egan

Station eleven Available at Audible.