MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Arts & Culture Stories from NPR

• 'Your Honor' Captures A Horrifying Spiral Of Accidents — And Consequences
  Bryan Cranston is a judge whose life is torn apart when his teen son is involved in a car accident with a mobster's son. The legal twists and dramatic turns are nonstop in this Showtime miniseries.
• Rosie Perez: The Flight Attendant
  Rosie Perez talks about recording safety messages for the New York City subway, her new show The Flight Attendant, and plays a game where she finishes Muhammad Ali's sentences.
• More, More, Moray
  What has more eyes, a starfish or a scallop? Big Mouth's Ayo Edebiri and her fellow "Iconography" podcast host Olivia Craighead compare animals and guess which has more of a thing.
• Yeahs In History
  In this audio quiz, Big Mouth's Ayo Edebiri and her fellow "Iconography" podcast host Olivia Craighead identify songs with the word "yeah" in them. Ohhhhh yeahhhhhhh.
• Musical Food Pyramid
  Jonathan Coulton plays songs by bands named after food rewritten to be about those foods. Fortune Feimster (Chick Fight) and Jillian Bell (Brittany Runs A Marathon) absolutely crush it.
• Bad To The Future II
  Comedians and actors Fortune Feimster and Jillian Bell guess what people in the past thought the future would be like.
• Check-In: Milestone Birthdays
  Jonathan Coulton talks about celebrating a milestone birthday during the pandemic.
• 'Mank' Is A Lushly Rendered Cinematic Landscape
  David Fincher's dramatization of Citizen Kane's origin story is an impressive, if occasionally inert, biopic.
• In 'Sound Of Metal,' Sudden Hearing Loss Sends A Drummer Reeling
  Riz Ahmed gives a quiet, intense and profoundly unsentimental performance as a rock drummer who suddenly loses his hearing and stubbornly refuses to accept it.
• More Evidence TV Doesn't Reflect Real Life Diversity
  A new study from the Nielsen company shows women, Latinos, Native Americans and older Americans are under-represented on TV.