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Just taste. en Wed, 20 May 2026 01:13:07 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/baby-reindeer Richard Gadd's searing autobiographical limited series tells the true story of a comedian stalked by a woman he showed kindness to, unraveling into a devastating exploration of trauma, complicity, and the stories we tell about ourselves. tv Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/baby-reindeer https://fyc.com/picks/anora Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner follows Ani, a Brooklyn sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, only to have the fairytale violently dismantled when his family sends enforcers to annul the union. film Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/anora https://fyc.com/picks/conclave Edward Berger's propulsive Vatican thriller follows Cardinal Lawrence as he oversees the most secretive election in the world, only to discover that every candidate harbors a secret capable of shaking the Church to its foundations. film Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/conclave https://fyc.com/picks/the-bear-season-3 The third season of FX's culinary pressure cooker follows Carmy and his team as they chase a Michelin star, pushing the boundaries of ambition and self-destruction in equal measure. tv Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/the-bear-season-3 https://fyc.com/picks/the-substance Coralie Fargeat's savage body horror follows an aging actress who discovers a black-market drug that generates a younger, better version of herself, with rules that prove impossible to follow. film Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/the-substance https://fyc.com/picks/all-we-imagine-as-light Payal Kapadia's luminous Grand Prix winner follows two Malayali nurses navigating love, loneliness, and displacement in Mumbai, where the city itself becomes a character shaped by light and longing. film Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/all-we-imagine-as-light https://fyc.com/picks/the-brutalist Brady Corbet's staggering 215-minute epic follows a Hungarian-Jewish architect who emigrates to America after World War II, only to find that the promise of reinvention comes at a devastating cost. film Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/the-brutalist https://fyc.com/picks/a-real-pain Jesse Eisenberg's deeply personal comedy-drama follows two mismatched cousins on a Holocaust heritage tour in Poland, where grief, humor, and family resentment collide with devastating honesty. film Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/a-real-pain https://fyc.com/picks/dune-part-two Denis Villeneuve completes his adaptation of Frank Herbert's masterwork with a visually staggering epic that transforms Paul Atreides from reluctant hero into something far more ambiguous and dangerous. film Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/dune-part-two https://fyc.com/picks/intermezzo Sally Rooney's fourth novel follows two grieving brothers whose romantic entanglements force them 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00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/disclaimer https://fyc.com/picks/slow-horses-season-4 The fourth season of Apple's espionage thriller sends Jackson Lamb and his band of disgraced spies into the murky world of Cold War legacies, proving once again that the best spy show on television is also the funniest. tv Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/slow-horses-season-4 https://fyc.com/picks/same-bed-different-dreams Ed Park's wildly inventive debut interweaves a failing tech company, a secret history of Korean independence, and a conspiracy theory about a provisional government that never really dissolved. book Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/same-bed-different-dreams https://fyc.com/picks/orbital Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-winning novel tracks six astronauts aboard the International Space Station over a single day, turning 16 orbits of Earth into a meditation on beauty, fragility, and what it means to see our world from above. book Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/orbital https://fyc.com/picks/industry-season-3 HBO's ferocious finance drama returns with its most ambitious season, following Harper, Yasmin, and Robert as they navigate a post-Pierpoint world where the real currency is leverage and the stakes are existential. tv Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/industry-season-3 https://fyc.com/picks/james Percival Everett reimagines Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man whose intelligence, dignity, and interiority the original novel could never fully see. book Sun, 15 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/james https://fyc.com/picks/north-woods Daniel Mason's Pulitzer finalist follows a single house in the woods of New England across centuries of inhabitants, from colonial lovers to a true-crime podcaster, creating a kaleidoscopic portrait of American life. book Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/north-woods https://fyc.com/picks/demon-copperhead Barbara Kingsolver's Pulitzer-winning retelling of David Copperfield transplants Dickens to Appalachian Virginia, where a boy born to a single mother in a trailer fights his way through foster care, addiction, and a system designed to forget him. book Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/demon-copperhead https://fyc.com/picks/past-lives Celine Song's luminous debut follows two childhood friends from Seoul who reconnect in New York decades later, exploring the space between the lives we live and the lives we might have lived. film Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/past-lives https://fyc.com/picks/the-bee-sting Paul Murray's Booker-shortlisted novel follows the Barnes family of small-town Ireland as financial ruin, marital secrets, and adolescent fury converge toward a reckoning that has been building for generations. book Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/the-bee-sting https://fyc.com/picks/the-covenant-of-water Abraham Verghese's sweeping multigenerational epic follows a Kerala family haunted by a mysterious curse of drowning, spanning from 1900 to 1977 across three generations of love, medicine, and sacrifice. book Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/the-covenant-of-water https://fyc.com/picks/birnam-wood Eleanor Catton's razor-sharp thriller follows a guerrilla gardening collective in New Zealand that stumbles into a partnership with an American billionaire, not realizing that his interest in their land has nothing to do with vegetables. book Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://fyc.com/picks/birnam-wood