09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
What's in Our Queue? ‘Schitt's Creek' and More
I cover higher education for The New York Times. My beat has been busy lately, so I'm usually looking for entertainment that's a little less pressurized. Here are five things that have had me thinking, laughing and cooking →
My wife and I are chronically behind on TV, and we are just now getting around to 'Schitt's Creek' a decade after it first aired. Despite — or maybe because of — our tardiness, the show is a hilarious escape that offers the added benefit of letting you understand some social media memes you've never quite grasped.
Georgia's grilling weather will be sporadically miserable until, say, October. But this mesmerizing cookbook makes all of the heat worthwhile, especially if you're sipping an orange, pineapple and lime agua fresca. Don't sleep on the citrus and oregano pollo asado and absolutely do not forget the avocado oil flour tortillas.
I like to pick up local histories when I travel, so my friends weren't surprised when I came home from London with a book about British leaders from Harold Wilson to Boris Johnson. Even though the U.K. is on its third post-Johnson premier, it's a lively volume that shows us much about how Britain got to its present.
Speaking of social media, Southerners will probably bless your heart if Matt Mitchell can't make you laugh about something. Come for the barbecue jokes. Stick around into the fall for the college football trash talk. (OK, that's a year-round thing here.)
One of my favorite storytelling genres is 'how things work.' Even though I have no musical ability, much less talent, I thought 'Score' was a wondrous peek into the brilliance that goes into sorting out what a movie should sound like. Plus, you get to listen to snippets of great soundtracks.
