| How to entertain yourself this weekend. |
Never underestimate the comedic impact of Seth Rogen falling through a glass table. —Alex Pappademas, culture editor |
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It’s Friday, and every day from now until The Pitt returns in January we’re going to be thinking about how to be more like Dr. Robby.
In the meantime, here’s your agenda for the weekend.
- If you haven’t already watched all 15 episodes of Max’s The Pitt—well, first of all, congratulations on your immunity to hype and buzz. Second: Watch The Pitt already—it’s great. Then come back here for the veritable IV push of Pitt-finale content we served up this week. Shea Serrano paid tribute to Noah Wyle’s Dr. Robby, the show’s walking-wounded senior resident, while Esther Zuckerman stuck up for Isa Briones’ Dr. Santos, who’s emerged as the show’s most polarizing character. Carrie Wittmer recapped of the finale and its subtle cultural messaging. And GQ’s Tap In columnist Frazier Tharpe modestly proposed one change that would make the show just a tiny bit better, or at least more nerve-racking than it already is.
- Need more exposed guts and trauma in your life than even a bloody-as-hell Max doctor show can provide? Go see Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Warfare, which takes a platoon of the buzziest young male actors in Hollywood—from Charles Melton to D’Pharoah Woon-a-tai to Michael Gandolfini, to name just a few—and drops them into an Iraq-war drama so viscerally intense and upsetting it makes The Hurt Locker look like a New Girl marathon. This week Esther Zuckerman talked to the film’s all-star cast about the intense training—and equally intense off-camera bonding—they underwent during production, from team tattoos to synchronized watches.
- Watch Seth Rogen tripping (over furniture and other things, that is) on AppleTV+’s The Studio, which despite being an extremely inside-baseball show about Hollywood people talking in conference rooms and one studio exec’s probably-doomed attempt to stave off of the death of cinema, is also—as Corey Atad pointed out this week—reviving the semi-lost art of the pratfall.
- Celebrate today’s 30th anniversary of the release of Wowee Zowee, the very best Pavement album (don’t come around the GQ offices looking to fight us, Crooked Rain and Slanted people—we work from home) by reading Will Schube’s Real Life Diet Q&A with Pavement/Hard Quartet co-founder Stephen Malkmus, who outlines the diet, exercise, and pre-show tequila regimen that’s long made him one of indie rock’s most infuriatingly young-looking elder statesmen.
- Also this week: Olivia Ovenden profiled Aimee Lou Wood, late of The White Lotus, Jack King pondered where the show will take its next batch of beloved actors playing self-involved Americans, and Esther Zuckerman argued that this season’s ending should not have surprised anyone familiar with Mike White’s game. Frazier Tharpe hit the road with Texas rap sensation BigXthaPlug and rolled up Saymo-like to watch John Mulaney do Everybody’s Live, uh, live. And Vince Mancini tried to figure out why macho MAGA men love to talk about how terrified they are of the big city.
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