Friday Fixations

What I'm into right now

Happy Friday, my fellow suffering beings. Each week, I share two things I’m digging right now (books, TV shows, movies, music, and the like) plus one online video of nearly zero cultural merit.

• The Pitt, on Max: My wife, Dr. Bianca Harris, normally hates medical dramas because she finds them annoyingly unrealistic. But she says this one, which we’ve been watching together, is impressively accurate (with a few exceptions). I was never a huge ER fan back in the day, but I do remember the whole Noah-Wyle-as-heartthrob-thing. I must say, I like him much better as a grizzled veteran. I bet he wins an Emmy for this.

• The Wild Robot, streaming: I have previously complained in this space about the lack of kids’ movies I can stomach. This film is a notable exception. It beautifully makes the case against the notion of the “survival of the fittest” (falsely attributed to Darwin) in favor of the survival of the kindest. It’s also very funny and moving.

• Doggy see, doggy do.

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