EFTV - 189: Step Aside Voice!!!
#EFTV is back from our film festival break, and we've taken a look at a heap of goofy and serious news, as we do! Things such as a dumb Brit caught smuggling drugs, Dick Wolf acting like a hemorrhoid, Australia dropping the ball hard with the 'NO' to the Voice referendum. Meta being blamed for young people's mental health, and Tinder saying dating is a "team sport"!!!
THEN, we catch-up with the remaining episodes of 'Still Up' on Apple TV, as well as taking a look at the first two episodes of their new series 'Lessons in Chemistry'!!!
This week:
- Don't sell drugs dummy, especially in foreign countries!!!
- Wolf wanted UPenn to cancel Palestinian literature festival
- Australia votes "No" for Indigenous rights
- Federal lawsuit filed against Meta around young people's mental health
- Is Tinder peddling old rope1?!
REVIEWS & RECOMMENDATIONS
Still Up: Season One - Poster
Still Up
Season One: Episodes Two - Eight
Apple TV's new comedy series ‘Still Up' has now concluded its first season of eight episodes.
We looked at episode one (watch here) a few weeks back, but now we're hitting you with thoughts on the rest of the show!
Picking up Lisa (Antonia Thomas) and Danny's (Craig Roberts) late night insomniac fuelled adventures, as they navigate sleep clinics, bus & taxi journeys, hen dos, drug overdoses, camping trips, revelations, and hard truths!!!
It's all directed by John Addis, and written by Steve Burge, Natalie Walter & Bryce Hart.
The episodes are:
Directed by: John Addis
Written by: Steve Burge, Natalie Walter, Bryce Hart
Starring: Antonia Thomas, Craig Roberts, Blake Harrison, Rich Fulcher, Lois Chimimba, Luke Fetherston, Bronte Smith, Jacqueline Boatswain, Alice Bailey Johnson, David Alade, Samantha Spiro, Karl Theobald, Cathy Murphy, Jo Martin, Enzo Squillino Jr, Albert Magashi, Letty Butler, Anna Crilly, Glen Davies, Linda Hargreaves, Remy Beasley, Ivana Bašić, Tim Samuels
Watch the review: Here.
Watch episodes one - three of 'Still Up' on Apple TV+: Here.
Lessons in Chemistry: Season One - Poster
Lessons in Chemistry
Season One - Episode One & Two
Lee Eisenberg has a new show on Apple TV called 'Lessons in Chemistry', which is an adaptation of Bonnie Garmus' 2022 book of the same name. The first two (of eight) episodes 'Little Miss Hastings' & 'Her and Him' (directed by Sarah Adina Smith, and written by Lee Eisenberg & Elissa Karasik) hit on the 13th October 2023, and we've helped you out by taking a look!
In the early 1950s, Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and the men who are suddenly listening — a lot more than recipes.
The episodes are:
Directed by: Sarah Adina Smith
Written by: Lee Eisenberg, Elissa Karasik
Starring: Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King, Stephanie Koenig, Patrick Walker, Derek Cecil, Thomas Mann, Andy Daly, Alice Halsey, Amentii Sledge, Yasir Hashim Lafond, Joshua Hoover, Kevin Sussman
Learn how to make Elizabeth's 'perfect lasagna': Here.
Watch the review: Here.
Watch episodes one & two of 'Lessons in Chemistry' on Apple TV+: Here.
*(Music)
'Good Times' by Cory Henry - 2022