The Sunday Digest 033
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Sunday Read: Jeremy Strong Knows What You Think
by Seth Abramovitch for The Hollywood Reporter
Since I began Sunday Scaries just over nine years ago, there are only a handful of shows that fall in the pantheon of “must-watch” Sunday night television shows — and yes, Succession is most definitely one of them.
As a Game of Thrones abstainer, Succession is quite possibly *the* must-watch Sunday show of the last five years. Without seeing it the night before, you run the risk of walking into work on Monday only to hear a plethora of spoilers that will make you regret not fighting your eyelids more as you attempted to justify putting it off until the next night.
The main reason for it being what it is? Well, Jeremy Strong. And his recent profile for The Hollywood Reporter only confirms this. Here’s a taste.
“As an actor, you’re kind of in the wilderness and there isn’t some system of apprenticeship where you can learn from masters or learn from the greats,” explains Strong. “So part of what I tried to do with my life and my early life was to try and find masters to learn from — which has nothing to do with hanging out with famous people.”
He continues: “One of the things those masters teach you is that they can’t teach you anything, that ultimately you’re on your own and you have to figure it out for yourself, and you have to be on the frontier of your own confusion and uncertainty. But I sort of had to ‘travel around the world in order to arrive home’ kind of thing. So for me, those stories are a narrative of learning and tutelage and apprenticeship and enormous desire to do great work. And that narrative can be seen in different ways by different people. But it was painful for it to be put out to the world, maybe in a less compassionate way than I would’ve hoped,” he says. “I felt that I had a safe forum at The New Yorker. I felt that I had a safe forum to share those things — and ultimately that experience was put in doubt.”
Read it in full here.
Things I Saved This Week
New Episode: Hotel Robes, Journaling, and Fall Scented Candle Recommendations
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are found.
Why sometimes the best thing about going on vacation is hanging right in your hotel room's closet, a case for using the act of journaling as self-care, and three fall scented candle recommendations for this season.
And because I discussed some scented candle recommendations, here are some links for you to entertain them —
Red Blend by Vellabox ($24)
Notting Hill by Boheme ($49)
Darkwood by Mad et Len ($110+)
The Sunday Haiku: Where Is Everyone?
The grocery store is
perfectly empty today —
Ah, football season.
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