Robot Babies, Radioactive Shrimp & Taylor Swift Gets a Ring

Your weekly scroll of the news, TV, movies, trends, and sales you actually need.

🚨 BIG NEWS

You don’t need me to tell you Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got engaged. But you do need to see this White House correspondent find out in real time.

Massachusetts asked for new flag submissions
My personal favorite logo submissions: “Witch-free since 1693.” and “In Cod We Trust.”

World’s first robot able to get pregnant and give birth to a human baby.
Black Mirror Season 7

Possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart and Kroger.
Isn’t this how Godzilla happened?

Influencers hit by car while filming at a restaurant.
This is why I eat in my car.

Married man secretly married to someone else and got busted after wife #2 gave birth at the hospital where wife #1 worked.
If you’re going to have a double life you need to be better at logistics, my guy.

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📺 TV WORTH WATCHING

Katrina: Come Hell or High Water (Netflix)
A powerful, three-part docuseries honoring the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The Spike Lee episode in particular is required viewing. A deeply human story of institutional failure, human resilience, and a city still rebuilding. Let’s all collectively try to remember the lessons we learned.

Unknown Number: High School Catfish (Netflix)
A 13-year-old girl is being ruthlessly cyber bullied, receiving up to 50 horrifying messages a day insulting her and telling her to kill herself. The twist? IT WAS HER MOM. Who is in this documentary trying to explain herself.

With Love, Meghan – Season 2 (Netflix)
If you need true background tv this season is more talk show than how-to this time. If you just want the highlights: Meghan once taught bookbinding, when she was an actress she rewarded herself after a good audition with a McDonald's apple pie, and she recommends lavender for everything.

Things I I will be trying:

• David Chang’s steak marinade

• Packing a silk pillowcase to sleep on and using it as a laundry bag on the way home.

• Sorbet in champagne

The Terminal List: Dark Wolf (Prime Video)
The Terminal List prequel doubles down on everything Amazon does best: explosions, espionage, and emotionally damaged Navy SEALs. Taylor Kitsch takes the lead this time as Ben Edwards, charting his messy path from soldier to CIA operative, with Chris Pratt showing up as James Reece. It’s all covert ops, shifting loyalties, and “brotherhood but make it morally compromised.” Basically, the most Amazon Prime show to ever Amazon Prime.

Rainmaker (Peacock)
John Grisham’s courtroom classic gets the glossy TV treatment, stretching the David vs. Goliath lawsuit into a serialized legal soap. A baby-faced rookie lawyer is trying to take down a corrupt insurance company, and John Slattery is his perfectly smug opponent across the aisle. Big monologues, high-stakes trial drama.

My Life with the Walter Boys (Netflix)
Think The Summer I Turned Pretty but with more denim and horses. A teenage girl moves in with a family of twelve after tragedy strikes, and suddenly she’s surrounded by hot ranch brothers, endless sibling drama, and a love triangle so obvious even the cows can see it coming. It’s heartfelt, soapy, and engineered to make you pick a team by episode two.

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📆 YOUR WEEK IN TV

Monday: Below Deck
Tuesday: Alien: Earth
Wednesday: Summer I Turned Pretty, Platonic, Final episodes of Wednesday (including the Lady Gaga episode), and the premiere of the new Beavis & Butthead,
Thursday: The Office spin-off The Paper debuts, Peacemaker, RHOM

And I’ll see you on Friday for more.

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🎬 MOVIES WORTH WATCHING

The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix)
A bunch of retirees in a cozy English village crack cold cases until they stumble into a very current murder. It’s warm, hilarious, and features Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Pierce Brosnan. The cast is stacked, the mystery is fun, and it’s based on a hit book series.

Thunderbolts* (Disney+ / Hulu)
Spoiler Alert: they’re like the misfit Avengers.

The new Superman (VoD) or you can watch the wonderful documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (HBO Max) tissues required

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🐇 RABBIT HOLES

Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah?
The internet is divided. Even Football teams are weighing in.

Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir chapter
The Eat, Pray, Love author’s latest? She fell in love with her dying best friend, who then becomes addicted to drugs, and it ends with her realizing she’s a sex and love addict. It’s a lot. Read the excerpt here.

The best internet trend was Morning! A woman doing an impression of Snapchat filters. I love impressions of inanimate things.

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🛍️ THINGS WORTH BUYING

Nothing too specific this week, but here are some Labor Day Sales:

• Amazon: Up to 40% off a bunch of stuff, I’m getting this weighted vest for my walks.

• Ulta: 21 Days of Beauty 50% off daily and weekly beauty deals

• Cos: 25% off (code:SHOPLDW)

• Madewell: Extra 40% off sale, 30% off fall selects (code: LONGWEEKEND)

• J.Crew: Extra 50% off sale and 40% off new styles (code: WEEKEND)

• Gap: Up to 60% off, no code needed

• Reformation: Up to 70% off

• Uniqlo: End of summer sale

• Everlane: Up to 70% off (Aug 27–Sept 1)

• Urban Outfitters: Up to 40% off

• Free People: Extra 25% off sale styles

• Nordstrom: Up to 60% off includes Adidas, New Balance, Free People

• Calpak: 15% off sitewide

• Brooklinen: 25% off sitewide + up to 50% off bundles

• Article: Up to 40% off furniture

• The Container Store: 30% off sitewide, my personal fave

• Crate & Barrel: Up to 60% off furniture and home goods

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💡 EXTREMELY HELPFUL TIP OF THE WEEK

How to untie a knot in a plastic bag
No more ripping open bags.

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👋 BEFORE YOU GO

• Hug your friends.

• Don’t eat the walmart shrimp.

• Share this with a friend.

Happy Labor Day and thanks for being here,
—N