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Something Very Bad Will Happen: The Duffer Brothers’ horror series is extremely terrifying | television

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Horror (TV) ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen I heard that the Duffer brothers, creators of Stranger Things, had a new series on Netflix, I knew I had to watch it — but I wasn't excited. I think identical twins making motion pictures are inherently scary, even when these productions aren't labeled Something Very Bad Will Happen. My nervous system doesn't allow me to enjoy horror, and I don't understand people who do. Is life not scary enough?Episode 1 (Thursday, March 26) – Is this a…

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Clue #235: Live from London, it’s Saturday night! But will SNL be translated across the Atlantic? | culture

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Saturday Night Live,TV comedy,Comedy,Television,Sky,Television & radio,Media,Television industry,Sky One 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TAt the weekend, after the longest period of hype for British comedy in ages, Saturday Night Live UK finally launched on Sky. It reaches a degree of division that most shows don't usually reach until after at least a few episodes, with some people wanting it, and others convinced it's going to fail. There has already been a note of protective schadenfreude online, with every last bit of promotional material – even a fairly innocuous…

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Review of The Rite of Spring / The Mirror – Stravinsky’s Vulgar and Digital-like by Alexander Whiteley | platform

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Dance,Theatre,Technology,Sadler's Wells,Culture,Igor Stravinsky,AI (artificial intelligence),Computing,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TTechnology can sometimes seem to invade its own life and marginalize the people it nominally helps. This tension, even conflict, is the subject of Mirror, a new duet by Alexander Whiteley, which is in fine tune with the choreography's deployment of digital, generative technologies and virtual reality.In black and white leotards studded with motion capture markers, Gabriel Cioli and Daisy Dancer move themselves in spirals and symmetries that veer from close-up to counter-drag and back again. This unstable…

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Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat Review – Stomach-Stirring Sex Toy Episode | television

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,US television,TV comedy,Comedy,Television & radio 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn 2023, Freevee (owned by Amazon) aired Jury Duty, a spoof reality show starring an unsuspecting member of the American public who was unaware that everyone else deciding the outcome of a trial in a Los Angeles court besides him was actually an actor. It was often ironic – not least when actor James Marsden was parachuted in as a member of the judging panel. However, it had a lot of heart, and a likable sign in the…

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TV Tonight: Hit or flop? The British version of SNL has finally arrived | TV and radio

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Saturday Night Live UK10pm, Sky OneThese are not easy times for TV satire. This is unfortunate because the world has rarely felt more in need of some brutal disdain. It remains to be seen whether this attempt to create a British version of an American comedy will succeed, but its line-up indicates an impressive commitment to new faces. Its regular cast includes Ayoade Bambooi, Larry Dean, Celeste Dring, and Annabelle Marlowe. There will be guest speakers each week and some…

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BTS releases new album Arirang ahead of their comeback concert | BTS

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: BTS,Music,K-pop,South Korea,Asia Pacific 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: K-pop stars BTS released a new album on Friday described as reflecting the mature boy band's Korean roots and identity, with buzz growing ahead of their outdoor comeback concert in the heart of Seoul.Saturday night's concert, which is expected to attract about 260,000 people, will be BTS's first after a nearly four-year hiatus while all seven members served their compulsory military service. It comes ahead of an 82-date world tour.“We have thought deeply about who we are — and how…

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The Oscars red carpet was in full swing. Then a woman took her home to her apartment. What other things can be repurposed? | Oscars 2026

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💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars 2026,Oscars,Culture,Awards and prizes,Film 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe Oscars are over, and the world has moved on. We no longer debate the merits of any particular film, or the validity of any particular win. Now there are only two groups of people who care about the Oscars; The winners' agents, who are all busy renegotiating their clients' contracts, and Los Angeles-based amateur rug maker Big Thalia.Thalia found a small amount of viral fame this week, after she discovered the Oscars red carpet was being laid out…

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Johannes-Passion album review – Pygmalion is razor sharp in the new theatrical recording | classical music

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Music,Culture,JS Bach 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: forHe never came closer to writing an opera than he did with The Passion of Saint John. A leaner cousin to the more expansive Saint Matthew, it responds to incisive leads and singers with a nose for drama, both of which this new recording has in spades.Artwork by Johannes Paschen. Photo: Harmonia MundiRaphael Pichon tears up the meat-grinding opening chorus with agonizing cries of despair, and later drives his singers mad as they demand the release of Barabbas and…

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Review of Ibram X. Kendi’s Thought Series – Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory | books

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,The far right,Far right,Far right (US),Politics books 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Additional information? Weltschmerz? I've been searching and I don't think even the Germans have a word for how dominant the news cycle is right now. The area is well and truly flooded. Just as you start trying to process a traumatic event, something new hits the headlines.The Ideas Series, a new book by Professor Ibram X. Kendi, does not offer a one-world summary of our modern problems. But, in 500 meticulously researched pages, it establishes a…

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Grace Ives: Girlfriend review – Bedroom pop auteur turns to widescreen for a brilliant sobriety saga | music

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Pop and rock 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: nNew Yorker Grace Ives broke out as a bedroom pop artist, self-producing No. 2, her 2019 debut, on her Roland MC-505 and carefully expanding her sound for 2022's catchy Janky Star. Her third album throws caution to the wind on hyper-detailed, windswept songs that pop like big-city street lights and shimmer with cosmic awe.A friend's artworkEve fled her bedroom in more than one sense. Junky Starr reflected her development into a healthy relationship with substances, yet she reached new…

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