Notes App Correspondents

Boy, do we have a bumper bank holiday episode for you this week!!! We stay a little bit longer on the mic to discuss:  Rivals - the Hulu adaptation of Jilly Cooper's bonkbusting Rutshire Chronicles  Netflix's Should I Marry a Murderer and the gendered nature of true crime consumption A forgotten literary gothic horror gem, restored by Persephone Books in Bath, and method writing (like me...

This week: Charlie and Clementine talk The Devil Wears Prada 2 , the slow erosion of quality (or the enshitification of absolutely everything), the tech bro colonisation of the Met Gala, how this new Vogue era is reputation-laundering billionaires, how Vogue is reputation-laundering billionaires, and what the magazine's future might look like - as well as Lena Dunham’s new memoir, Famesick . ...

We're back! And this week, we get into why the past is having such a moment. Charlie unpacks the rise of imperial nostalgia, as politics and pop culture keep circling back to airbrushed versions of what came before.  From there, Clementine gets into the hyperreal chaos of HBO's Euphoria, Series one and two saw Gen Z's coming-of-age play out in full view, with nothing softened and very little...

On our very first episode on Notes App Correspondents, we take on Coachella, global unrest, TikTok militarism, film theory, and the Vatican (and yes, they do all belong in the same conversation!) Charlie gets into: Sabrina Carpenter and Justin Bieber at Coachella — spectacle and the lack thereof Ireland’s fuel protests and motorway shutdowns — and why Britain’s barely talking about it The Navy SEA...