{"id":44741,"date":"2021-12-27T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=44741"},"modified":"2021-12-27T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:27:06","slug":"2021-entertainment-adele-lana-del-rey-reservation-dogs","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/2021-entertainment-adele-lana-del-rey-reservation-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"My 2021 Entertainment Bucket List: Adele, Lana Del Rey, \u2018Reservation Dogs\u2019 and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44750\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-44750\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/3-e1640614456525.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Jennifer Coolidge and Udo Kier in director Todd Stephens's Swan Song\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Coolidge and Udo Kier in director Todd Stephens&#8217;s <i>Swan Song<\/i> (Photo: courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the weird consequences of writing about entertainment for a living is that, while you spend a lot of time trying to exhaustively consume everything out there\u2014every <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/music-doja-cat-tyler-the-creator\/\">new release<\/a>, every <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/succession-season-3-premiere-review\/\">season premiere<\/a>, every <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/i-cant-stop-thinking-about-miranda-beating-up-chucky-on-and-just-like-that\/\">episode<\/a>, every album\u2014inevitably, things fall through the cracks. As 2021 draws to a close, I\u2019ve been trying to cram in as much of the marquee content that I somehow missed over the past 12 months. Here\u2019s a selection of hot-takes from my 2021 entertainment bucket list.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu) Trailer HD - Taika Waititi comedy series\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/POkrsNVkGNk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Reservation Dogs<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard such good things about this show from basically every critic I respect, so I have zero excuse for taking so long to actually watch it. The half-hour comedy from co-creators Sterlin Harjo and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/taika-waititi-tessa-thompson-rita-ora-response\/\">Taika Waititi<\/a> follows four Indigenous teenagers as they run amok in their rural Oklahoma town, doing everything they can to earn enough cash to move to California. Three episodes in and I\u2019m hooked on the show\u2019s distinct POV, its fully-realized sense of place\u2014not to mention its winning young cast.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Also\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>I\u2019ll be finishing Season 2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/the-great-season-2-elle-fanning-nicholas-hoult-hulu\/\"><em>The Great<\/em><\/a> (Hulu) and the final season of <em>Dickinson <\/em>(AppleTV+), and checking out Showtime\u2019s <em>Yellowjackets<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Blue Banisters\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2wwCc6fcyhp1tfY3J6Javr?si=KKrs3VMcSD6viKUmIN4PDg&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Lana Del Rey, <em>Blue Banisters<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>I have this tendency to only listen to the music I already know I love. Probably it\u2019s age, I dunno. The point is that I\u2019m seriously behind on all the 2021 albums I meant to give a chance this year. Top of that list is <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/lana-del-rey-criticism-mesh-face-mask\/\">Lana Del Rey<\/a>\u2019s <em>Blue Banisters<\/em>. In my defense, this is the second album she\u2019s released in 2021, and as much as I love a lot of her work, it does kind of all start to bleed together. At least it does to my ear. There\u2019s a very specific Lana Del Rey sound, a very specific Lana Del Rey vibe, and that remains true on <em>Blue Banisters<\/em>: wistful, melancholy, sexy and sad. Still, the brass on tracks like \u201cArcadia\u201d and \u201cIf You Lie Down with Me\u201d was a nice surprise. I remain partial to the bombastic production on <em>Born to Die<\/em>, so the trap beat on the short instrumental interlude \u201cThe Trio\u201d feels a bit like a tease. Like nearly all of her output since that breakthrough album, there\u2019s essentially one sustained mood on <em>Blue Banisters<\/em>, and it\u2019s one that I think of as perfect for summer twilight, for slow dancing poolside as the fireflies begin to appear. But if you know anything about Lana Del Rey, you don\u2019t need me to tell you that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: 30\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/21jF5jlMtzo94wbxmJ18aa?si=fR19H0jJScS7cmIW39Cv5A&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adele, <em>30<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ok, so I certainly am not the first to says so, but the voice memos in \u201cMy Little Love\u201d are super weird. Which is a shame because that\u2019s a lovely song with some very self-assured vocals, and the voice memos undercut that with their uncertainty and anxiety. But hey, maybe that\u2019s the point. I know people come to <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/style-bio-adele\/\">Adele<\/a> for all the feels, the torch songs, etc. And I\u2019m not <em>not<\/em> all about that. But the highlights of <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/adele-30-album-review\/\"><em>30<\/em><\/a> for me were a couple of bops called \u201cOh My God\u201d and \u201cCan I Get It.\u201d Honestly, despite all the acclaim, I put off listening to this album, thinking it was going to be weighed down by heartbreak\u2014it\u2019s Adele\u2019s \u201cdivorce album\u201d after all. But there\u2019s a lightness and sexiness I didn\u2019t expect, which made for quite a fun listen.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Plus\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Music really has been my biggest blind spot this year, so as embarrassing as it is to admit, I still need to listen to: <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/lil-nas-x-jean-paul-gaultier-collaboration\/\">Lil Nas X<\/a>\u2019s <em>Montero<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/billie-eilish-tonight-show\/\">Billie Eilish<\/a>\u2019s <em>Happier Than Ever<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/olivia-rodrigo-saint-laurent-dress-beauty\/\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2019s <em>Sour<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43636\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43636 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/9781641293044.jpg?w=191\" alt=\"I Wished by Dennis Cooper\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>I Wished<\/i> by Dennis Cooper (Image courtesy of Penguin Random House)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5><strong><em>I Wished<\/em> by Dennis Cooper<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Dennis Cooper has been writing about George Miles for decades. From 1989 to 2000 he published a series of five novels known as the George Miles Cycle\u2014<em>Closer<\/em>, <em>Frisk<\/em>, <em>Try<\/em>, <em>Guide<\/em> and <em>Period<\/em>\u2014inspired by his late friend, who died by suicide at some point in the late \u201980s. In his first novel in 10 years, Cooper is once again reconning with this relationship. I\u2019ve read the first two books in the cycle, as well as a collection of Cooper\u2019s short fiction. His work is often filled with disturbing imagery and unsettling theme. But <em>I Wished<\/em> is a much mellower, contemplative book\u2014though still dangerous. Officially, it\u2019s considered a novel, but I might classify it as something more like auto-fiction, a collection of impressionistic autobiographical essays or musings.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>And Every Other Book I Should Have Read 2021<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>I\u2019m not kidding myself that I\u2019m going to read every 2021 book I meant to before January 1. But here\u2019s what\u2019s stacked on my nightstand at the moment: Torrey Peters\u2019s <em>Detransition, Baby<\/em>; the late Anthony Veasna So\u2019s short story collection <em>Afterparties<\/em>; Anthony Doerr\u2019s sprawling <em>Cloud Cuckoo Land<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swan Song - Official Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/heN0JtJu4pE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Swan Song<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>I was a big fan of director Todd Stephens\u2019s first two films, <em>Edge of Seventeen<\/em> (1998) and <em>Gypsy 83 <\/em>(2001), but his mid-aughts campy gay farces left me kind of underwhelmed. This year, however, the writer-director returned to his dramedy roots with the <em>Swan Song<\/em>. The film follows a former hairdresser (Udo Kier) who embarks on an eye-opening odyssey across his small town to style a deceased client\u2019s hair for her funeral.\u00a0<em>Swan Song<\/em> received praise for Kier\u2019s performance, and I\u2019m particularly interested in Stephens\u2019s portrayal of an elder queer\u2019s place in small-town America.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lamb | Official Trailer HD | A24\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hnEwJKVWjFM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Lamb<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Who doesn\u2019t love a folk horror flick from A24? This one stars Noomi Rapace as an Icelandic farmer who discovers that one of her sheep has given birth to a half lamb-half human creature. She and her husband (Hilmir Sn\u00e6r Gu\u00f0nason) try to raise it as their own, but\u2026the sheep have other ideas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":44750,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,3324,3292,16,3925],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My 2021 Entertainment Bucket List: Adele, \u2018Reservation Dogs\u2019, and more<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As 2021 draws to a close, I\u2019ve been trying to cram in as much of the TV, films and music that I somehow missed over the past 12 months.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/2021-entertainment-adele-lana-del-rey-reservation-dogs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" 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