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Pluribus Review – The audacity of the Breaking Bad creator’s new TV show is incredible | television

Pluribus Review – The audacity of the Breaking Bad creator’s new TV show is incredible | television

✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Vince Gilligan 💡 Main takeaway: eDespite Vince Gilligan's name being attached as creator, Pluribus – stylized as a stylish Plur1bus on screen, to evoke the unofficial US motto "E pluribus unum" ("Out of many, one") – initially seems like a bit of light relief. A man who has spent the past two decades immersed in the apocalyptic world of Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and El Camino, you think, probably deserves it.Perhaps it goes back to the roots of The X-Files with this story…
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‘I’m not very scary. But my features could be: Fiona Shaw on Austen and Andor and Harry Potter | film

‘I’m not very scary. But my features could be: Fiona Shaw on Austen and Andor and Harry Potter | film

💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Culture,Fiona Shaw,Stage ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Your funeral speech on Andor was a big highlight of the show Surprisingly full of anti-fascist sentiment (we all know that when I said "Fight the Empire!" I really wanted to use a different f-word there). Did you know at the time how relevant the whole show was in American political climate? notauthorityI said a different word in my speech, and the writer was hoping Disney would agree with it, so we saved the strong word for last. And…
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Hachi: Licorice Review – Stunning dream music with welcome flashes of depravity | music

Hachi: Licorice Review – Stunning dream music with welcome flashes of depravity | music

✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Music,Australian music,Culture,Pop and rock 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: AAlmost all of Hachi's music could easily fit into a coming-of-age film. Her songs, for the most part, are hazy musings on puppy love and the devastation that follows; They yearn for a redemption that feels fateful and annoyingly out of reach. You can imagine Harriet Pilbeam's Melvée harmonies soundtracking a high school prom speckled with refracted disco ball flashes, or envision her woolly guitars over a montage of light-hearted teenage debauchery. These are pre-made pieces of…
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This new sci-fi from the Breaking Bad creator is ‘one of the smartest shows of 2025’

This new sci-fi from the Breaking Bad creator is ‘one of the smartest shows of 2025’

🔥 Discover this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: This intriguing series from Vince Gilligan stars Better Call Saul's Rhea Seehorn, who plays a sarcastic woman living in a world where people suddenly feel happy all the time. The result is George Orwell meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers.If a mysterious man is speaking to you directly by name through your television set, and you are not dreaming or hallucinating, it is safe to assume that the world has changed. How and why is the question in creator Vince Gilligan's exhilarating new Breaking Bad and…
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Paul Kelly: Seventy Reviews – Reflections on Aging from a Greater Musician Than Ever | Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly: Seventy Reviews – Reflections on Aging from a Greater Musician Than Ever | Paul Kelly

🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Paul Kelly,Pop and rock,Folk music,Music,Australian music,Culture ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: pOl Kelly is 70 years old and has never looked older. He's just headlined his first arena tour — which sold out. In an industry as ageist as Australian music, this is a great career path; There has been no sudden revival of interest, nor a belated rediscovery of his vast catalogue. Slowly, over the course of a career spanning fifty years, Kelly became ubiquitous.Over-familiarity comes at a price. There are people who never listened to…
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Shirley Valentine gave Pauline Collins a role that matched her talent. She captured it with elegance and joy film

Shirley Valentine gave Pauline Collins a role that matched her talent. She captured it with elegance and joy film

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Culture,Comedy films,Comedy,Upstairs Downstairs 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: pOlin Collins was a smart, funny and sexy actress in the 1970s who became a well-known star on both sides of the Atlantic on the British TV show Upstairs, Downstairs and the Downton Abbey of her day.Collins upstairs, downstairs. Image: ITV/ShutterstockShe played Sarah, a vulnerable saloon maid with a dodgy past, who has an affair with the handsome chauffeur Thomas, played by Collins' real-life husband, John Alderton. It was a TV marriage that audiences loved and continued on the…
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The Celebrity Traitors final review – what an absolute blur! | Traitors

The Celebrity Traitors final review – what an absolute blur! | Traitors

🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: The Traitors,Television,Culture,Television & radio 💡 Key idea: DDoes he play blinder? Or did the Believers really play it — I mean sensationally, exceptionally, and astonishingly poorly? We'll argue about this on social media a lot, but either way, the winner of the first - but certainly not the last - series of The Celebrity Traitors is the dastardly Alan Carr. When we were first cast in this collection of gowns, handcuffs and terse instructions that we have come to know as presenter Claudia Winkleman, we thought he…
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Martin Frost: BACH Album Review – Silky-eloquent clarinetist brings freshness and fun | classical music

Martin Frost: BACH Album Review – Silky-eloquent clarinetist brings freshness and fun | classical music

✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Classical music,Culture,Music 💡 Main takeaway: pProbably every musician worth his salt will turn to JS Bach sooner or later. The German composer died before the clarinet as we know it today was created, but Martin Frost, whose playing is as eloquent and silky as ever, makes the short but sweet selection of this recording very much his own.Artwork by Martin Frost: Bach. Image: Sony ClassicThere's an intimate feel to the whole thing, which was recorded at Frost's studio in the Swedish countryside, where his fellow musicians sleep.…
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Michael: The first trailer for controversial Michael Jackson biopic has been revealed | the biography

Michael: The first trailer for controversial Michael Jackson biopic has been revealed | the biography

🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Biopics,Michael Jackson,Film,Culture,Music,Pop and rock,US news 📌 Main takeaway: The first trailer for the Michael Jackson biopic has hit the internet after reports of a troubled production.Filming of Michael was completed in May 2024 and the film was originally scheduled for release in April 2025, a date that was then pushed back to October, but reshoots were needed in June, pushing it back to April 2026.There were then further reports that the film was being split into two parts, but the first trailer now suggests that it will…
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Celebrity Traitors Final – Live | Traitors

Celebrity Traitors Final – Live | Traitors

💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: The Traitors,Television & radio,Culture,Television 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: While we wait for the show to start, please enjoy highlights from The Guardian's extensive coverage of celebrity traitors over the past few weeks.Analysis of the series by former contestant Paul GortonMichael Hogan HighlightsZoe Williams interviews Tom DaleyAlan Carr vs. Celia Imrie, mentioning the fartEl Hante's visit to the Castle of TraitorsAnd finally, the predicted ranking of contestants I wrote up back in May that was so clearly astonishingly wrong. As always, you're welcome.ShareFor those of you who…
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