Obsessions This Week

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Midweek Obsessions, Vol. 10

Midweek Obsessions, Vol. 10

The internet's new boyfriends, the best things I read this year, and a personal gift guide.

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Hope Rehak
Dec 20, 2023
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🌶️ New internet boyfriends just dropped

The most ubiquitous internet boyfriends (meaning they persistently showed up on my various social feeds all week) were the actor Morgan Spector, of The Guilded Age1, and the writer-director Cord Jefferson, whose film American Fiction is everywhere right now.

Morgan Spector and Cord JeffersonMorgan Spector and Cord Jefferson
Morgan Spector and Cord Jefferson

I especially enjoyed Tonya Mosley’s chat with Jefferson on Fresh Air, and Spector’s been having a media moment due to Guilded Age’s season two finale dropping Sunday.

Honorary mention to Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, who are doing intense press for All of Us Strangers and absolutely saturating my algorithm, if you know what I mean.

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