Edi Patterson and Succession headline our favorite stories of the week

By The A.V. Club | August 24, 2019 | 11:00am

Aux Features The Week In Features

Edi Patterson and Succession headline our favorite stories of the week

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Here’s a compilation of our favorite features published this week. Be sure to follow along with our TV recaps and check out all our recent reviews.

Monday

Edi Patterson thinks The Righteous Gemstones will “break people’s brains”
Succession pops the digital-media bubble: The A.V. Club reacts
Colleen Green’s album-length cover of Blink-182’s Dude Ranch is a sepia-toned ode to adolescence
Relive the glory of SummerSlam ’97 with WWF podcast Hell In A Cellphone

Tuesday

30 years on, Saved By The Bell’s grotesque nerds are a relic unto themselves
Brett Gelman talks Stranger Things, the “dark nobility” of hisFleabag character—and “iBrain”
Midsommar, Scary Stories, and the horror of realizing your fate is sealed

Wednesday

Stan by your man: 15 depictions of obsessive fandom
What we don’t talk about when we talk about the “podcast revolution”

Thursday

Barry’s Anthony Carrigan on being an Emmy nominee, a role model, and a future rom-com lead
Yes, that was Jillian Bell on the jumbotron at a New Kids On The Block show

Friday

5 new releases we love: Jay Som gets smooth, Missy throws it back, and more
You can trace the quippy fun of Marvel blockbusters straight back to Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Telling Lies’ voyeurism makes you wonder: “Should I actually be watching this?”

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