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John Yau on Roy Lichtenstein, Megan O’Grady on John Berger, and Paddy Johnson answers the question: Do I need an agent? It’s a sunny October afternoon in Manhattan and the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are bustling with visitors. Tourists pose for selfies against the museum’s facade; street vendors sell chopped-up hotdogs in a nest of French fries; and the sound of saxophone music drowns into the symphony of splashing water fountains and honking cars on Fifth Avenue. So many types of people; the only ones missing are the Lenape whose land was stolen so we could enjoy this fine Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the steps of The Met. Inside the museum, a blockbuster exhibition about Abstract Expressionist painters Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock is jam-packed. The show is as much about their mutual influence as it is about their marriage, their most difficult collaboration. I hear a woman from behind accusing me of “White privilege” because I apparently cut her in line. I turn around and say, “What White privilege?

THE PERFORMANCE | We could've chosen any episode of "Crystal Lake" to celebrate Linda Cardellini's excellent, refined, and at times, terrifying performance, but it was the season finale of Peacock's "Friday the 13th" prequel that really had our blood pumping. The "Dead to Me" vet plays Pamela Voorhees, a mother on the run from a dark past whose child drowns and goes missing. And it's that traumatic event that triggers Mom to spiral as she slowly slips into insanity and turns into a monster. In Episode 8, Cardellini continued to tear out our hearts and scare the bejeezus out of us in one fell swoop. The actress first showed Pam's vulnerable side early in the hour, after the character revealed the chaos she had fled. Cardellini's eyes filled with fear after sharing the story of her husband Elias' evil ways and admitting to (some of) the murders she had committed.

This article contains spoilers for Crystal Lake. It was around halfway through Crystal Lake that I realized the Peacock miniseries wasn’t clicking for me. I’ll admit that the premise had me apprehensive from the jump: A prequel expansion to Friday The 13th, in the vein of Bates Motel, sounded antithetical to enjoying a proper Voorhees chop-em-up. But I was still willing to give Crystal Lake, with its A24 pedigree, an honest, open-minded go. At the streaming-era standard eight episodes, Brad Caleb Kane’s series does what it says on the tin: It marries slasher thrills to the complex melodrama of a contemporary TV show with a veneer of prestige, making Friday‘s monsters into human beings in the process.