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23 January 2018updated 17 Jan 2024 7:02am

SRSLY #128: The Post / Search Party / She’s Gotta Have It

On the pop culture podcast this week: Steven Spielberg's The Post, the second series of the dark TV comedy Search Party and the Netflix remake of Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It.

By Caroline Crampton

This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New Statesman. Here, you can find links to all the things we talk about in the show as well as a bit more detail about who we are and where else you can find us online.

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SRSLY is hosted by Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz, the NS’s head of podcasts and pop culture writer. We’re on Twitter as @c_crampton and @annaleszkie, where between us we post a heady mixture of Serious Journalism, excellent gifs and regularly ask questions J K Rowling needs to answer.

The Links

The Post

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The trailer.

Search Party

Anna’s column about it.

She’s Gotta Have It

The Erin E Evans review at Mic.

The SRSLY Book Club:

For our 30 January book club episode, we are reading The Innocent Wife by Amy Lloyd. Get it as an audiobook on Audible here.

Tweet us on #srslybookclub to tell us your thoughts as you read, and send us a voice memo with your review of the book at srslypod@gmail.com.

For next time: 

We are watching Craith.

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See you next week!

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