Wear, Watch, Want #179: The Hacked, Mindful Pasta Edition

Wear: Mindful Pullover

My favorite article of clothing is a gray sweatshirt. I don’t mean I have one gray sweatshirt and it’s my favorite. I mean I am ALWAYS attracted to a gray sweatshirt, no matter how many I already own. And, as someone who can rationalize any purchase, I determined that Athleta’s Mindful Pullover is just sweatshirt adjacent, so I got two. I was going to get three, but I have a light gray Aritzia top that looks exactly like it, so I held back. These are incredibly soft and cozy and drape over your body is a perfect way. Pro tip: I got them in tall so that they fit more like a tunic, and they’re very easy to kind of bunch up into a french tuck look.

Watch: I Hate Suzie

I really feel like Billie Piper doesn’t get the respect I have decided she deserves. I know no one listened to me when I demanded they watch Penny Dreadful, and Eva Green does (rightfully) earn a lot of attention for her performance, but BILLIE PIPER!! She is so, so, SO amazing on that show! That monologue! (Any viewer will immediately know “that monologue”). And Secret Diary of a Call Girl was kind of a secretly, potentially amazing show (the way Secret Diary had so much potential to be amazing but didn’t quite live up to it is mentioned in this interview). Advertising framed it as a frothy, sexy, funny show and it was so much more than that! If it came out now, and had savvy marketing behind it, I really think it would be received differently. ANYWAY! Billie Piper has teamed up again with the creator of Secret Diary to make I Hate Suzie, and it is fantastic.

Piper plays Suzie, who is not dissimilar from herself (started as a pop star, rose to fame on a cult-fave scifi show), an actress whose phone gets hacked and some incriminating photos are leaked to the press. They’e not just nude photos, they expose an affair she’s having with the showrunner on her current project. Each episode is named after a stage of grief, and has a very different tone from each other episode. This may not appeal to someone who is looking for a straightforward comedy, but if you want something that’s funny and sweet and challenging and makes you thrilled to see occasionally unlikeable, constantly complicated, and and never perfect people, particularly women, on a TV show, then I Hate Suzie is for you.

When Suzie’s husband Cob asks her when she last did drugs, and she answers that “Women take all kinds of drugs, you know, to deal with all the pain.” I CACKLED for DAYS. Her delivery is just… perfection.

Want: Pasta-Based Artwork

I have a wall in my house that is considerably larger than I imagined, and I need more stuff to fill it. I have some things that I’m making and some things that I’m shopping for, but I’m so infatuated with the Etsy shop Knuffel Paper that I kind of just want to wallpaper the whole wall with their pasta prints. I haven’t bought any yet because I can’t choose, and perhaps that means I need one of each.