Hi friends,
Can you believe we’re almost halfway through 2022? For some reason, I still feel stuck in 2020, a wild year that seems to have shifted us all into a strange new era.
For those who can recall, is this what it felt like on the eve of the 21st century? I came across these TIME Magazine covers from 1999 and 2000, respectively, and I’m not sure what to feel about them. The hysteria seems trivial now, but I’m sure things felt scary and urgent back then. (Also, look at how many guesses the second cover got right!)
Anyway, I hope you have a safe and restful weekend.
OUR TOP TV SHOW OF THE WEEK
Night Sky
New on Amazon Prime 🍅 rating: 73%
In the eight-part series Night Sky, Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons star as a couple in the winter of their lives. It’s worth watching just to see their rare love unfold: pure, kind, joyous, and seemingly perpetual. The rest of the show’s elements—the sci-fi-ness of the portal in their shed, the mystery of the stranger they find there, the drama of their family past—are all just extras; toppings to the sundae that is Spacek and Simmons’ magnetic bond.
Night Sky (at least the first episode of it) reminded me so much of this Modern Love column by Bette Ann Moskowitz. In it, the elderly writer grieves the loss of her husband but in very mundane terms: she recalls how they prepped their food and made their walks, how they wondered who would die first and similarly planned what to do next. Night Sky is at its best when it hones in on this (often overdramatized) aspect of aging and humanity.
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