Weekend Whats

What to Movie: Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett play a couple of spies who also happen to be a married couple in Black Bag on Peacock.

+ What to Watch: “As she wrangles three teens, an aging father and vulnerable kids from her social services job, Pørni somehow finds time for everyone — except herself.” I’m only one episode into the Norwegian show Pernille on Netflix, but I can already tell I’m gonna watch all five seasons (in part because watching TV nonstop is my way of coping with everything else in this newsletter, and in part because you can tell how good it is right from the start).

+ What to Read: “The widow’s most important, and perhaps unusual, request was that the building sit exactly on the nations’ common border. Inside, black tape representing the boundary ran along the hardwood floors, a symbol not of division but of the enduring friendship between the two lands. Then one day, the leader of the country to the south threatened to annex his neighbor to the north.” Nowhere was the friendship between the US and Canada more clear than in a library that shared a common border between the two countries. And now, nowhere is our stupidity more clearly on display. NYT (Gift Article): The U.S.-Canada Border Runs Through This Library. That’s Now a Problem.