MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Arts & Culture Stories from NPR

• 'Ted Lasso' Scores In Season 2 With Unexpected Twists And A Lot Of Heart
  The Apple TV+ series about an American football coach who winds up coaching soccer in the U.K. is nominated for 20 Emmys Awards. The new season of Ted Lasso is just as warm and funny as the first.
• No More Mr. Nice Guy: Hugh Grant Embraces The 'Blessed Relief' Of Darker Roles
  Grant started out in romantic comedies. Now he's up for an Emmy for his role as a narcissistic doctor accused of murder in the HBO series The Undoing. Originally broadcast Dec. 1, 2020.
• Comic-Con Is Online Only Again This Year. On The Bright Side, No Lines!
  No costumed crowds are thronging the streets of San Diego this weekend: For the second year in a row, Comic-Con is online only. But organizers are hoping for a small in-person show in November.
• Supreme Supremes
  In this music parody game, The War Report podcast hosts Shalewa Sharpe and Gastor Almonte are served a hefty helping of Supremes songs rewritten to be about fast food chains.
• Body Of Work
  Hosts of the podcast The War Report, Shalewa Sharpe and Gastor Almonte, play this word game in which every answer is the title of a movie, with one of the words replaced with a rhyming body part.
• Who Owns What?
  Shalewa Sharpe and Gastor Almonte, hosts of the podcast The War Report, figure out which corporate relationships are true and which are false. Pet food candies? Cheesecake workouts? Who's to say.
• Culture Math
  FINALLY, MATH! Love About Town podcast hosts Kenice Mobley and Rohan Padhye will multiply, divide, add and subtract their way to the answers. You know what? DON'T Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.
• Coming In Hot
  Love About Town podcast hosts Kenice Mobley and Rohan Padhye hear only the first second of popular songs, and must identify the song based on that alone!
• Check-In: No Skirting Around It
  Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton challenge gender norms.
• Somber Tone Lingers At Tokyo Games Opening Ceremony, Though Athletes Add Lift
  Viewers who woke up early in America to watch NBC's first live morning telecast of an Olympics opening ceremony Friday were greeted with a subdued presentation, where the COVID pandemic loomed large.