What to read this weekend: Jan. 24, 2025
Every Friday, Gold Derby rounds up some of the best stories of the week from our friends across the web. Maybe you missed these, maybe you were too busy to read them at the time, maybe you bookmarked them and forgot, but hopefully you’ll have some over the weekend to check them out. Happy reading!
Kyle MacLachlan: How David Lynch invented me
Kyle MacLachlan pays tribute to David Lynch in the New York Times, writing about their longtime collaboration and friendship, and Lynch’s distrust of words, which led to his secret language with his cabal of actors. Bonus reading: MacLachlan’s interview with GQ, in which he shares the last time he saw Lynch.
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Laura Dern’s letter to David Lynch: You wove L.A. into our dreams
Laura Dern, another frequent Lynch collaborator, pens her own tribute in the Los Angeles Times. In a “love letter” written on what would’ve been Lynch’s 79th birthday on Jan. 20, the actress recounts, among other things, their first meeting and how the director gave her the nickname Tidbit.
As Netflix stock surges, an ‘anti-ESPN’ sports strategy emerges
The Athletic examines Netflix’s sports programming game plan (no pun intended) that focuses less on the actual sports and more on zeitgeist-y events, like its Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight in November and Beyoncé‘s Christmas Day halftime show during during the Houston Texas-Baltimore Ravens game.
Benedict Cumberbatch tells all on Doctor Strange’s future, his new Sundance film and not being your typical movie star: ‘I’m not Brad, I’m not Leo’
Gracing the cover of Variety this week, Benedict Cumberbatch discusses his new Sundance film The Thing With Feathers, why he won’t be in 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday, his reaction to Robert Downey Jr. playing Doctor Doom, and his conditions for returning to Sherlock.
Asura is already the best new show of 2025
If you’re also looking for something to watch this weekend, consider Asura on Netflix. Slate‘s Geoffrey Bunting declares Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s family drama the best new show of this nascent year — and wonders why Netflix, which quietly released it on Jan. 9, has allowed the show to get buried in “its black hole of content almost instantly.”
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