HeyJaredThe Best Newsletter
Hello, friends. Welcome to The Best Newsletter, my attempt to make sense of the overwhelming barrage of shows, movies, books, articles, and everything else the media-cultural world throws at us these days.
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The Bargain (opens the original)
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I’ve been wrestling a lot lately with how much to share of myself — and perhaps, more to the point, the people in my life — in the essays I write here.On a recent drive back to New York after a family gathering, I started thinking about an essay on the Beatles. I had just finished reading Paul & John: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie, a book that chronicles and assesses the relationship between Paul McCartney and John Lennon through the songs they wrote.<a class="image-link image2
Certain Songs (opens the original)
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Countdown (opens the original)
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Spoiler-free thoughts ahead, inspired by the final season of The Bear:Throughout its run on FX and Hulu, one of The Bear’s signature motifs is the countdown clock. “Every second matters,” the show frequently tells us. Each person in every role at the restaurant must execute their job perfectly and on time, or the night can — and will — go haywire.Yet when the clock appeared again at the start of the fifth season, I rolled my eyes a little. Yes, the show had earned my trust through four yea
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