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TV
1.Wat ch
Euphoria
Welcome back, Rue and Jules.
HBO, January 9.
Aside from a pair of one-offs, fans of this gauzy
andgritty teen drama have been waiting over two
years to see what’s next for Rue (Zendaya), her
possible soul mate Jules (Hunter Schafer), and
the high-school crew. jen chaney
BOOKS
2.Read
To Paradise
A most-anticipated release.
Doubleday, January 11.
Hanya Yanagihara’s broad sweep of a novel
reaches all the way to 2093, when a totalitarian
government is in power and pandemics prolifer-
ate. An early section recasts 19th-century Amer-
ica as a more equal republic—on its surface, at
least. This is Yanagihara’s first book since 2015’s
devastatingA Little Life. emmaalpern
TV
3.Wat ch How I Met
You r Fa t her
Take two.
Hulu, January 18.
Hulu is trying to make the legendary happen
again with Hilary Duff starring as an unlucky-in-
love gal from Brooklyn. Duff previously tried to
make a modern-day Lizzie McGuire reboot with
actual sex happen, so congrats to her for landing
a show that’s pretty much that, without the
Disney+ censorship. jackson mchenry
MOVIES
4.SeeBelle
Gorgeous.
In theaters January 14.
Mamoru Hosoda’s new animated spectacle,
about Suzu, an anonymous high-schooler whose
persona on an app called “U” becomes globally
famous, isBeauty andthe Beastby way of the
metaverse, with a lovely and unsaccharine mes-
sage about the vulnerability of being seen in the
age of intense online scrutiny. An unpredictable,
visually dynamic story about our dual modern
lives. alison willmore
POP MUSIC5.Listen to Sick!
A West Coast rhymer.
Tan Cressida/Warner Records,
January 14.
Earl Sweatshirt was working on an album loosely
dedicated to his mother when the world ground
to a halt. In isolation, reflections on the stasis and
chaos of 2020 would emerge. Recent cuts like
“2010” and “Tabula Rasa” are assurances that
Sweatshirt continues to write and rap at the peak
of his abilities. craig jenkins
TV6.See All Creatures
Great and Small
A cozy haven.
PBS Masterpiece, January 9.
Your favorite fictional rural veterinarians are
back. James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) and friends
have returned to soothe horses and get kicked by
mean pigs and help us muddle through our lives
by being such good examples of muddling
through their own. kathryn vanarendonkRT
. (^) See Alice Trumbull
Mason
he “Shutter Paintings.”
Washburn Gallery, 177 Tenth Avenue,
through January 15.
Mason began making abstract paintings in 1929,
when she was just 25. By her death in 1971, she
had raised abstract hell with her painterly and
retinal range. Here, see Mason spread her wings
of hard-edged abstraction. jerry saltz
THEATER
8.SeeUnder the Radar
Festival
Let’s get weird.
The Public Theater, January 12 to 30.
In-person shows return to the experimental-
theater festival with Jasmine Lee-Jones’s hymn to
queer friendship Seven Methods of Killing Kylie
Jenner; the frontier-flavored Antigone riff Our
Country; Mabou Mines’s successful María Irene
Fornés duo Mud and Drowning (the latter made
into an opera by Philip Glass); and two solo
shows, Roger Guenveur Smith inOtto Frankand
Inua Ellams inAn Evening With an Immigrant.
Plus there is Salty Brine’s dystopian romance
Good News, or Harry the Dog at Joe’s Pub and two
Pascal Rambert monologues being performed at
PS21 in Chatham. helen shaw
TV
9.Wat ch The Righteous
Gemstones
New congregants.
HBO, January 9.
The second season of this dark comedy—about a
family of televangelists who love God but maybe
love money more—gifts us with John Goodman’s
performance, as well as those of Eric André, Jason
Schwartzman, and Walton Goggins. k.v.a.
MOVIES
10.See Ne w York
Jewish Film Festival
The 31st edition.
At Film at Lincoln Center and virtual.filmlinc.org,
January 12 to 25.
The centerpiece of the festival is Kaveh Nabatian’s
Sin La Habana, a film about an Afro-Cuban bal-
let dancer (Yonah Acosta) who plots with his law-
yer partner (Evelyn Castroda O’Farrill) to secure
immigration papers by romancing a lonely Ira-
nian Canadian tourist (Aki Yaghoubi)—though
things of course get complicated. a.w.
PODCASTS
11.Listen to
This Is Dating ...
If you were a fan of Netflix’sDating Around.
Magnificent Noise, January 10.
What’s more unnerving than a first date? Having
them hand-picked by a bunch of podcast produc-
ers. This reality docuseries-style podcast follows
four individuals on a series of curated virtual
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