The TV, Movies, and Music That Made 2018 Bearable
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 24 December 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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The New Yorker staff writers Jia Tolentino, Doreen St. Félix, and Alexandra Schwartz all cover the culture beat from different angles. They talk with David Remnick about the emblematic pop-culture phenomena of 2018 that tell us where we were this year: how “Queer Eye” tried to fix masculinity, and how that spoke to women in the #MeToo era; whether “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians” will mark a turning point in the representation of nonwhite people in film; and how, as Tolentino says, “A Star Is Born” was “arguably the only event of the year that brought America together.”
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| 1:11.7 | I'm Dorothy Wickenden. On today's Politics and More podcast, the New Yorkers |
| 1:16.7 | Gia Tolentino, Alexandra Schwartz, and Doreen St. Felix, tell David Remnick about the movies |
| 1:23.3 | and TV shows that help them cope with a politically tumultuous 2018. |
| 1:31.6 | As we look back on 2018, I wanted to talk about the year in culture, the high points and the low points, the complicated and the problematic points. |
| 1:40.4 | And we'll do it with three of the keenest observers I know, Gia Tolentino, Doreen, St. Felix, and Alexandra Schwartz, all staff writers at the New Yorker. |
| 1:48.8 | And I asked each of them to come in with one big story for the year in pop culture. |
| 1:55.1 | Gia, let's start with you. What did you bring in for us today? |
| 1:57.4 | Let's talk about a stars born. Oh, that's please. |
| 2:00.6 | The event that brought America together, arguably the only event of the year that brought America together. It's the fourth remake of the 1937 classic. Round two was Judy Garland. Round three was Barbara Streisand. Round four is Gaga. Oh, I loved it. I loved it, too, and everybody loved it. |
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