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Dune AND Dune Part Two AND 3. Sicario (sick film). Arrival (amazing Amy Adams surely snubbed by the Oscars). Blade Runner 2049. I could go on (Prisoners). And now, the Canadian filmmaker has been named as the Director of the 26th Bond film! A bloomin’ brilliant decision which means the franchise is surely in the best possible hands. But who is your money on for the next James Bond? My lips are sealed. Because I have no information about who on earth it could be. On with today’s email.
Our rec of the week is a trickier task today. The excellent The Bear returns with a strong season 4, after a slightly tricky 3rd series. Perhaps the grossest/most hilarious documentary of the year was released on Netflix a few days ago - Trainwreck: Poop Cruise.
Also Jesse Armstrong’s post-Succession career has kicked off, not that he’s ventured too far from wealthy tech bro’s making incompetent decisions, he’s made a film about wealthy tech bro’s making incompetent decisions as the whole crashes around them in a Bond style layer, that’s Mountainhead. And of course, there are is Glastonbury all weekend should some live music take your fancy. And why wouldn’t it? Tis the summer season.
But because its nice to just have a laugh sometimes (isn’t it though?), we’ve gone all funny for Amandaland.
Amandaland
Amanda of Motherland fame is back with her own spin-off, and she's as magnificently awful as ever.
Lucy Punch's supremely selfish Amanda has fallen from west London grace and landed in SoHa (that's South Harlesden, darling). After her Hygge-perfect life collapsed, she's driving a perpetually dying Tesla and trying to reinvent herself as queen of the postcode around Wormwood prison.
The Motherland writing team delivers their trademark laser-sharp satire with Amanda now navigating state school politics and befriending lesbian power couples who serve magic mushroom chocolate at dinner. Joanna Lumley appears as Amanda's ghastly mother, delivering lines with Ab Fab levels of venom.
The show finds unexpected pathos in Amanda's narcissistic spiral. She's invented the word "senuous" to capture her essence, but she's also a single mother desperately clinging to relevance while everything falls apart around her.
The gag rate is relentlessly high, aimed squarely at "strung out middle-aged mums longing to laugh until they wee a bit." STREAMING NOW ON BBC iPLAYER
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