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Jupiter’s Legacy: Listen up superhero lovers: this is a new series based on the graphic novels of our favourite writer Mark Millar. The series follows the children of first-generation superheroes burdened by the legacies of their parents. Or to put it in The Verge’s word: “an intergenerational conflict between a team of superheroes and their potentially less heroic children.” It starts streaming on Netflix today.
Milestone (Meel Patthar): This film won best movie at the Singapore film festival. Directed by Ivan Ayr, the plot revolves around a truck driver coping with the loss of wife. Lead actor Suvinder Vicky also scored the Silver Screen award for best performer. So it comes highly recommended! Available on Netflix.
Mine: Starring Lee Bo-young and Kim Seo-hyung, this is the story of two daughters-in-law—who’ve married into a powerful family—navigating their privileged but gendered roles as they figure out what is ‘mine’. It drops on Netflix tomorrow.
A list of good reads
- Amitava Kumar pens a delightful essay in the New York Times on the oldest productivity trick: the check mark.
- Also in the New York Times: a photographer captures the lives of child-free women who opted out of motherhood.
- Popular Science has an excellent and engaging read on how and where our body stores its fat. Hint: think sex hormones.
- The Hindu has an optimistic analysis of the NV Ramana Supreme Court—and how it will be different now that CJI Bobde is gone.
- An old but good read: The Atlantic on how the beloved ‘When Harry Met Sally’ invented the toxic stereotype of the high maintenance woman.
- Is Robert Palmer’s 1986 hit ‘Addicted to Love’ brilliantly idiotic or idiotically brilliant? Variety looks for answers to this pressing question.
- BBC News on India’s biggest Covid quack, Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury—who claims facemasks make you ill.
- Slate analyses why Finland is the happiest country in the world. TLDR: reasonable expectations.
- The Wire has a good analysis on how BJP crafted its own humiliation in Bengal.
- On a light note: The Cut is here to help you decode those dreadful dreams where your teeth fall out.
- BloombergBusiness has a juicy excerpt from a new book on Jeff Bezos. This bit focuses on how he ruthlessly decimated the tabloids after they leaked his dick pics.
