They Killed Normal and Called It Progress

Julia Roberts, Applebee's, Bandcamp, your manager, and the death of everything in between. (Also, Sweetgreen is the A24 of dining and I will die on this hill.)

If My Best Friend’s Wedding came out today, it would be a prestige streaming series called “Unlikable Woman”, marketed as “brave,” dissected on Instagram, and quietly buried by the algorithm in forty-eight hours.

I took my wife to see it at the Alamo Drafthouse for Valentine’s Day and had the unsettling realization that this used to be normal: a $38 mill…