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You know that feeling you get when you see someone your age doing really well, and you're happy for them, but you can't help but feel a strange little twist in your stomach as you misinterpret their success as your own failure, in a roundabout selfish way? The Other Two, screening every Friday on Comedy Central, takes that feeling to a hilarious extreme. It follows two siblings in New York - Brooke, 30, essentially homeless, and Cary, 28, a struggling actor - whose 13-year-old brother becomes an overnight YouTube sensation in the same vein as early Justin Bieber. The show, from SNL alumni Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, features hilarious observations on millennial life as the siblings struggle to find their place in the world. It's a comedic and fulfilling watch, elevated by a scene-stealing Molly Shannon as the siblings' overexcited momager.
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If anything good comes from last week's distressing New York Times story on Ryan Adams, I hope it's more people discovering Phoebe Bridgers, the folk singer-songwriter who was among the women who spoke out against Adams. I was late to the party on Bridgers, discovering her via last year's excellent Boygenius EP, and I've since fallen in love with her debut record Stranger in the Alps over the past few weeks. She tells stories of young heartbreak and loss with devastating vulnerability and care, and can somehow make fragility sound powerful. It's a record that feels mysterious and timeless, but also specific to times and places that the listener can slip themselves into.
