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11 October 2016updated 03 Aug 2021 11:43am

SRSLY #63: The Girl on the Train / Luke Cage / The Sure Thing

On the pop culture podcast this week: new film The Girl on the Train, Marvel-Netflix production Luke Cage and 1985 teen movie The Sure Thing.

By Caroline Crampton

This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New Statesman. Here, you can find links to all the things we talk about in the show as well as a bit more detail about who we are and where else you can find us online.

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SRSLY is usually hosted by Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz, the NS’s web editor and editorial assistant. 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

The Girl on the Train

Anna’s piece on the significance of the gin in the tin.

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The NS review of the film.

Luke Cage

The show on Netflix.

A discussion of all the references to black culture in Luke Cage.

The Sure Thing

The trailer.

For next time

Caroline is watching Game of Thrones.

If you’d like to talk to us about the podcast or make a suggestion for something we should read or cover, you can email srslypod[at]gmail.com.

You can also find us on Twitter @srslypod, or send us your thoughts on tumblr here. If you like the podcast, we’d love you to leave a review on iTunes – this helps other people come across it.

We love reading out your emails. If you have thoughts you want to share on anything we’ve discussed, or questions you want to ask us, please email us on srslypod[at]gmail.com, or @ us on Twitter @srslypod, or get in touch via tumblr here. We also have Facebook now.

Our theme music is “Guatemala – Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #62, check it out here.

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