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A roundup of the “most anticipated fall” book, TV, film, music lists, plus a bananapants new memoir, and shows worth streaming! (September 10th edition)

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Jamie Canavés
September 10, 2025

Hello! And welcome to another round of things on my recent radar I think are worth sharing. First, a little “the more you know” in case, like me, you’d yet to discover: I knew that my library’s Hoopla offered films and TV series for streaming but I didn’t realize that there is a Hoopla app on the Roku that makes it super easy to watch on your TV. Guess who has been rewatching a bunch of ‘80s and ‘90s films? Up next: The Cutting Edge for some “toe pick!”.

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It’s a bananapants ride.

While Elizabeth Gilbert has written a lot since her 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love (the adaptation starred Julia Roberts) it’s probably still what she’s most recognized and known for and for those set of readers they are especially in for, let’s say, a shock: her new memoir is about her recent life in which she left her husband for a love affair with her friend Rayya. But when Rayya got cancer and refused treatment Gilbert went all in on the relationship as caregiver which resulted in her feeding Rayya, a former addict, copious amounts of illegal drugs and ultimately planning her murder.

It’s more batshit than I can sum up but the thing with Gilbert is she’s a hell of a writer—on the sentence level and looking back with insight—but I have wondered if her own addictions to love and need of validation might fuel a book like this in which it is impossible to not find the spotlight again.

And I very much recommend reading cultural critic and author Jia Tolentino’s review in The New Yorker: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies

Teen Vogue is always doing the work

“When you bring the element of policing into a mental health crisis of any kind, the risks can increase exponentially — even becoming deadly: According to the Washington Post, over a three-year period, police officers shot and ‘killed the individuals they were called to assist’ at least 178 times.” Why Lil Nas X's Arrest Is More Proof Police Have No Business Treating the Mentally Ill

My most anticipated film of the fall has a trailer

And now a roundup of the most anticipated fall 2025 lists!

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poster for Upload series on amazon prime

This is a funny, inventive series that at its core is asking a lot of questions about our current state of late stage capitalism and technology. In this near future world you can upload your consciousness into a digital afterlife when you die, while the technology to put you back into your body is being worked on (heads still explode during tests). The problem? Someone in the afterlife may have been murdered, and someone in the real world is trying to help them. The thing that hurt this show was the constant unknowing if it would be renewed after cliffhangers and the long pauses (2 years) between some of the seasons—but now that it’s complete, and tells one full story, it’s totally worth watching all 4 seasons!

As I said it’s funny, the characters range from charming to absolutely wild and unhinged, and I really enjoyed watching the creation of what a digital afterlife would look like and how it would run—I remain team no thank you. You get a nice blend of comedy, action, mystery, twists, and a love story!

poster for Hostage series on etflix

I am always here for an entertaining political thriller and this had the tropes (with a reversal of genders) and twists, while being a limited 5 episode series that works well for a weekend marathon. The setup: the British prime minister's husband is in French Guyana with Doctors Without Borders when he and his team are kidnapped. The British prime minister is in a tense meeting with the French president when she finds out and asks for her help in rescuing her husband. The problem? The French president is being blackmailed to not help


poster for Thunderbolts film on disney+

The Marvel films are a hit or miss with me, I was not a fan of the exhausting Avengers films and I couldn’t even finish Deadpool 2 but I did enjoy Thor: Ragnarok, Captain Marvel films, the racoon series (you know which I mean), and the new Spider-Man series (both the Tom Holland one and the animated films). With that being the guide for my taste I found Thunderbolts to be entertaining—it hit the right notes for a ragtag team forced to come together, the fight scenes were great and always had a good joke tossed in, and I’m here for Julia Louis-Dreyfus playing the “bad guy”. Is it in my rotation of rewatches? No. But it was worth a Sunday afternoon on my couch with a bowl of popcorn and Sour Patch Kids.

That’s all for now! Thanks for reading, and as always feel free to shout out anything you’ve been loving lately!

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