The rapscallion that was 2023 is lastly concerning an end, a sage tip that time marches forward no matter what wonder serums we’re presently face-slathering. Before we brand-new year, brand-new me, Let’s Ebenezer Scrooge and welcome the ghosts of discourse past. As the fin credit rolls on a mentally girthy year, it’s time to strap on our Big Red Boots as I direct you through the ludicrously capacious caverns of popular culture this year.
In spite of all the media saturation, the inflight chest-compression episode of Succession was this year’s television peak. It’s still amusing to me that Tom Wambsgans– a “extremely interchangeable modular part” who consumed his own climax– is the American CEO of Waystar Royco. Numerous Gregs were broken for that Tomelette. Sarah Lancashire in Delighted Valley was likewise terrific, however I had a crush on Tommy Lee Royce, which was clashing.
This year the tech business owner Bryan Johnson persuaded us we can live permanently. Unsure what the other health patterns were, however the Upper East Side got hooked on Ozempic and Phoebe Philo.
Barbie vs. Oppenheimer had a chokehold on package workplace this summertime,