How WandaVision Made Itself the Perfect Anti-Binge Watch
In eschewing traditional streaming logic, Disney Plus is dropping its big shows weekly - and it works.
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SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for the first five episodes of “WandaVision.”
If “WandaVision” had dropped its entire season all at once instead of teasing its mystery out over weeks of storytelling, what would we make of it?
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I asked myself this question a lot while watching the first three episodes I initially had to review, and then even more once the fourth episode (“We Interrupt This Program”) dropped. After three episodes of sitcom parodies laced with creeping unease, “We Interrupt This Program” left behind Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) in order to connect the series back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe from whence it came. Friendly neighbor “Geraldine” was revealed to be Monica Rambeau (Teyon
January 22, 2021
“Chaat: Recipes from the Kitchens, Markets and Railways of India,” by Maneet Chauhan and Jody Eddy. MUST CREDIT: Clarkson Potter Publishers. (Clarkson Potter Publishers) via The Washington Post Syndicated Service
On a gray afternoon last November, I sat down to a meal that evoked Istanbul cafes where just the year before I had feasted at the edge of the sun-streaked Bosporus. Dried sumac speckled a plate of shaved radishes and fennel, and the main course was lamb ragout, ladled over satiny eggplant puree. It was Thanksgiving dinner, 2020.
After canceling a planned gathering for pandemic-obvious reasons, I ignored suggestions for wan, scaled-down menus featuring chicken legs and miniature pie for two. Instead I reached for a Turkish cookbook, trading holiday traditions for a culinary voyage.
This weekâs TV: The inauguration, John Lurie paints, and 2020â²s most-streamed shows
By Matthew Gilbert Globe Staff,Updated January 18, 2021, 7:03 a.m.
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Tom Hanks will host a 90-minute TV special Wednesday night to be aired on most of the networks called âCelebrating America,â to replace the traditional inauguration balls, with guests including Jon Bon Jovi, Demi Lovato, Ant Clemons, and Justin Timberlake.DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images
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Ysewijn champions some of Britain s most popular bakes such as the Chelsea bun, which back in early 18th-century London may have been the first sweet confection that people ever queued for in masses, she writes, and remains ubiquitous in British bakeries today alongside nearly forgotten regional gems. (Regula Ysewijn)
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White swans, black swans,
England is locked
Who could repair our key
Let them pass,
And the last one we will catch.
Ysewijn, a food historian, author, and photographer, learned this rhyme as a small child, skipping rope in her native country of Belgium.