PopaHALLics #76 "Those Meddling Kids!"
Did you know "Scooby Doo" was ranked the fifth-greatest cartoon of all time by TV Guide? Steve delves into the history of Scoob and the gang in a discussion of a new fan-made show, "Mystery, Incorporated." Meanwhile, Kate raves about Florence + The Machine's new album and the novel "Sea of Tranquility." Zoinks!
Streaming
"Mystery, Incorporated," YouTube. Scooby Doo and his teen friends get a contemporary live-action makeover in this pilot for a proposed TV series. Is it a Scooby Snack or a "Ruh-roh"?
Novels
"Sea of Tranquility," Emily St. John Mandel. The author of "Station Eleven" and "The Glass Hotel" returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague, taking readers on a journey from 1912 to 500 years in the future.
"The Witches of New York," by Ami McKay. In this dark, atmospheric novel, three witches face the evil lurking in the dark corners of New York during the Gilded Age.
Music
Florence + The Machine are back with "Dance Fever," a new release that's outsized and grandiose like Florence Welch's earlier work but more internal. (The title's a reference not to disco but the medieval European “dancing plague,” where people would flail and twitch until they reached exhaustion, injury, or death.) Kate likes the album a lot. Listen here.
