Ellie Kemper, Doctor Who, and another Star Is Born: The A.V. Club's best stories of the week
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Here’s a compilation of our favorite features published this week. Be sure to follow along with our TV recaps and check out all our recent reviews.
Monday
- Matt Damon is here to make friends: 11 movies where the actor finds a buddy (or 10)
- Another Star Is Born: Why Hollywood keeps returning to this tragic Cinderella story
- The new Doctor is in—and so are our first impressions
- The Podmass October horrors continue with tales of Bigfoot, The Exorcist, and group fitness classes
Tuesday
- Nick Kroll on how a talk by Planned Parenthood led to Big Mouth’s boldest episode yet
- Yeardley Smith and Zibby Allen bring their true-crime fixation to life with Small Town Dicks
Wednesday
- Ellie Kemper on her journey from Onion headlines to Kimmy Schmidt to memoir writing
- Beyond the joint, past the pipe: The fanciest new ways to get high in the year 2018
Thursday
- 10 episodes of Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law to watch before the new special
- The creators of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on preparing their musical comedy’s curtain call
Friday
- The Good Place, annotated: “The Snowplow”
- Super Mario Party is a very fun way to test the strength of your friendships
- Pretty In Pink is a far superior riff on the Sixteen Candles formula
- A-Sides: Sheck Wes, Daniel Avery, A Star Is Born, Reason, and Colter Wall
- 6 of our favorite film stunts, from Jackie Chan to Indiana Jones to shark-fighting zombies
- Fembots, dancing queens, and love fools: 60 minutes of Swedish pop
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