Hamnet's Moving Portrayal of Grief Feels Both Timeless and Timely

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Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In the second installment of this summer's Little Gold Men book club series, David, Richard, and Rebecca are joined by VF's Hillary Busis to discuss Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, which explores grief and hope from the perspective of William Shakespeare's wife. At the end of the episode, O'Farrell herself joins David and Rebecca to talk about Chloe Zhao's movie adaptation starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal.

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0:00.0	Adolescence has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited Series.
0:05.0	Outstanding lead actor Stephen Graham.
0:07.0	What are you done?
0:08.0	Outstanding supporting actor, Owen Cooper.
0:10.0	I've done anything.
0:11.0	And outstanding supporting actress, Aaron Doherty.
0:14.0	You need to sit down, Jay.
0:16.0	Do not tell me when to sit down!
0:18.0	Forbes raves, Adolescence is an all-time technical masterpiece.
0:22.1	Deadline declares it a world-changing phenomenon for your Emmy consideration.
0:26.5	Outstanding Limited Series.
0:28.2	Adolescence. Only on Netflix.
0:34.1	Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.
0:39.6	I'm David Canfield.
0:40.7	I'm Richard Lawson.
0:41.7	I'm Rebecca Ford.
0:42.7	And I'm Hillary Bucis.
0:46.9	Hillary is back because we're doing another book club episode.
0:49.7	And when we read, Hillary's here.
0:52.6	I'm going to take that as a compliment.
0:54.4	This is the nerd episode, so here's that dork Hillary who likes books.
1:00.3	Maybe it's both.
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