The Must List→ One of the earliest questions every baby
Netflix user learns to ask is “What the hell
is Peaky Blinders?” Turns out everyone’s
favorite ubiquitous algorithmic recommen-
dation refers to an exquisitely suspenseful
period thriller about a British street gang–
turned–global family empire—sort of a
curious cross between Gangs of New York
and The Crown, if Queen Elizabeth were
played by Cillian Murphy and her corgis were
gypsies and hookers. Season 5 (streaming
Oct. 4) is already off to a rollicking start,
throwing the band of brothers (and Helen
McCrory’s f***-the-patriarchy flapper Aunt
Polly) into a world turned upside down by
the American stock market crash. Still, you
can consider Peaky Blinders a more-than-
sound investment of your precious time.BLINDERS
BURIED TREASURES
THE BEST STUFF YOU TOTALLY MISSED
8 PEAKY
Find Me
Elio
Just 17 years old in CMBYN, Elio has since
made good on his music potential, thriving
as a classical pianist in Paris. He’s also in
a new romance with an older man—safe
to say, however, he’s no Armie Hammer.Oliver
As expected, Oliver is a married father
back in the U.S., working as a professor.
But he still pines for Elio—is domesticity
really any contest for a torrid summer
affair?—and decides to go looking for him.Samuel
Elio’s father, Dr. Perlman—whose final-act
speech in CMBYN marks one of the story’s
highlights—gets a larger role in this sequel
when he meets a woman and becomes
infatuated while on his way to visit his son.TV
BOOKS
By André AcimanAciman’s moving Call Me by Your Name sequel may flash
decades forward, but it’s still just as lush, languid, and
erotic as the beloved original. Here you’ll find middle-aged
ennui and cross-continental voyages placed alongside the
more familiar pleasures of intellectual repartee, medita-
tions on true love, and (very) vivid descriptions of fresh
fruit. Find Me builds toward the CMBYN epilogue (which
does not appear in the 2017 film) wherein Elio and Oliver,
kept apart for decades, reunite and reflect on their time
together—and from there, find satisfying closure. Are the
pair destined to be together? And perhaps more impor-
tant: Is it still peach season? —David CanfieldTotal Re-Call
HERE’S WHERE WE (RE-)MEET FIND ME’S THREE NARRATORS