Culture Gabfest: Ill Be Your Mirror
This week, Steve and Dana are joined by Karen Han. First, Slate\u2019s music critic Carl Wilson chimes in to discuss Todd Haynes\u2019s new The Velvet Underground documentary, which he wrote beautifully about for Slate. Next, the panel (minus Dana) is joined by Slate staff writer Rebecca Onion to review Mike Flanagan\u2019s newest Netflix horror series, Midnight Mass\u2014which she also wrote lovingly about. Finally, the panel (minus Dana) is joined by Vulture senior editor and host of the Good One podcast, Jesse David Fox, to discuss the Dave Chappelle controversy.\nIn Slate Plus, the panel discusses media they loved when they were younger that they have since outgrown.\nEmail us at culturefest@slate.com.\nEndorsements\nDana: The book equivalent of Todd Haynes\u2019s documentary, the first oral history Dana ever read and still one of the best she\u2019s ever read to this day: Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein and George Plimpton. The oral history tells the story of actress and model Edie Sedgwick completely through testimony from people that were there, without any interstitial material.\xa0\nKaren: New World, the Korean crime drama film from Park Hoon-jung that stars Squid Game\u2019s Lee Jung-jae. The film features Lee as an undercover cop who is tasked with infiltrating the mob, but ends up caught between two worlds. It also stars a slew of great Korean actors including Hwang Jung-min and Song Ji-hyo.\xa0\nSteve: First, Netflix\u2019s series The Chestnut Man, a dark, taught crime drama which takes place in Copenhagen. Then, a whole genre of YouTube videos taking you from raw audio of rehearsal to mastertape of Elvis\u2019s songs, including \u201cAnd The Grass Won\u2019t Pay No Mind\u201d\u2014though, Neil Diamond\u2019s version of that one is better.\nPodcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.\nOutro music is \u201cI\u2019ll Be Your Mirror\u201d by The Velvet Underground.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices