I'm Stephen Meckhaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest and Sorsold by Sorkin Edition.

It's Wednesday, October 21st, 2020.

On today's show, the trial of the Chicago 7 is very much

an errands sorkin joint. There is just no mistaking. It is, I've been sorkinized. It's about the

aftermath of the 68 Democratic Convention and the riots that took place surrounding it, I should say

also the trial. I mean, it's really about the trial that took place in the aftermath of the riots.

It stars Eddie Redmayne and Sasha Baron Khan and Yaya Abdul-Martine, the second, among many others.

And then Apple TV has come up with quite the charmer, I think, in Ted Lasso, a sitcom about a lovable American goofus brought in the coach and English Premier League soccer team.

It stars Jason Sudeakis, he of Saturday

and live, among many others, and a lovely little ensemble cast. And finally, any excuse to have

Jamel Bouillon. And we have come up with the very thinnest, which is to say also the very best one.

I mean, I'd pay to watch the man eat cereal. Who wouldn't? He is making videos in which he eats cereal on camera and then does a review of it. It just makes me so happy that we're doing this.

Joining me today is Julia Turner, the deputy managing editor of the LA Times. Hey, Julia.

Hello, hello.

Julia, explain the significance of our title.

Oh, I think you guys have like given me guff over the last decade plus for the word

and sorcel being one of my ticks. And the word and sorsel gets put on a silver platter in a

sorkenian. Look at my language way in this movie. So I felt shamefully seen or something.

I like the shamefully seen or something. I like the shamefully seen edition, though.

I guess that's every edition of the culture got this.

Dana Stevens is the film critic for Slate.com.

Hey, Dana.

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