I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still

watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,

soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,

Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago. Join me as I share how the genre

began, their social impact, and why these stories endure. Listen, wherever you get your podcast.

From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerd Ed. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up, it only took 50 years, but Judy Bloom's classic novel, Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret, is now a major motion picture, and we are going to talk to the director.

We must, we must, we must increase our bus. But first, now is our chance to unwind from the week that was with two excellent humans.

With us this week, we have Naila Boodoo.

She's the host of the podcast, Axios, today.

Naila, welcome back.

Thank you for having me.

We also have here, Ingu Kang, TV critic for the New Yorker.

Ingu, hello. Hi. So it is almost May,

which means that spring is closer than ever before, whether or not it is also occasionally

hailing in your neck of the woods, as it definitely has in Chicago in the past week.

So we thought it would be fun this week to get some recommendations from each of you for

things to maybe do inside as we're still like waiting for things to improve outside.

So that means we asked each of you to bring ideas of something to watch, listen to, and read.

Let's start with watch because especially you, Ingu, this is like very much in your vein of

expertise.

And I'm always curious what you are watching and loving these days.

What do you got for us?

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