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Jul 3, 2023Liked by Helena Fitzgerald

I don’t even know where to begin with what I like about this one (which is everything), other than if I start at the end and work my way up, then I get to say how the Jessie Ware album is kind of a Godsend for me? Almost always, I have those go-to albums, the ones I will put on when I open up Spotify and have to pick something anything to give me a soundtrack for the commute or to get work done. But for the last few months, Jessie Ware has been a solid yes without question. T!F!G! is just wall to wall, no skips, revelatory goodness.

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I'm really sorry to be this person just it's also glaring to me, I totally get what you're saying and your right but Supernatural is not Remotely a High School Show. Like Sam is in college when the show starts and they are both in their 20s? I know this seems nitpicky and it totally is.

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I've never been able to put a finger on whether Buffy really was that good, or what was good was being in college and having a group of friends who got together and made lasagna each week and watched the show. The friend group was established long before I was invited in; I was a latecomer to both Buffy night and to having a genuinely solid circle of friends, and the whole experience was being suddenly surrounded by warmth and abundance after a childhood that felt like standing outside in the cold.

We graduated and scattered, but for the finale, most of the buffy night group reunited to watch the last episode at the Parkway theater in Oakland, which was broadcasting it live. It's hard to imagine a show carrying that kind of weight nowadays; a finale being such an event that a couple hundred people would want to watch it together with popcorn and group tears -- did I change, or did TV? -- but it was glorious at the time.

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T!F!G! is an absolute stunner. Been having the same feelings as you and also about the new CRJ song Shy Boy

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