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17 January 2018updated 17 Jan 2024 6:24am

SRSLY #127: Three Billboards / Derry Girls / Arrested Development

On the pop culture podcast this week: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls and Arrested Development.

By Caroline Crampton

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SRSLY is hosted by Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz, the NS’s head of podcasts and pop culture writer. We’re on Twitter as @c_crampton and @annaleszkie, where between us we post a heady mixture of Serious Journalism, excellent gifs and regularly ask questions J K Rowling needs to answer.

The Links

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The trailer.

Marc Bernardin on the film’s shallow presentation of race and racism.

NS film critic Ryan Gilbey finds it “homely but violent”.

Derry Girls

The show on All4.

Anna’s column about it.

Arrested Development

The show on Netflix.

A long interview with creator Mitch Hurwitz.

The best of Lucille.

The SRSLY Book Club:

For our 30 January book club episode, we are reading The Innocent Wife by Amy Lloyd.

Tweet us on #srslybookclub to tell us your thoughts as you read!

For next time: 

We are watching She’s Gotta Have It.

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