On this week’s show, Dana is joined by Slate’s own Nadira Goffe and Richard Lawson, of the <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-darlings/id1885681327" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Critical Darlings</a> podcast. Their first agenda item is Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, the second installment of the workplace comedy/reality show hybrid which places an unknowing everyman in a made-up scenario populated entirely by actors. Does the second season deliver a heart-warming moral test in the form of comedy or a manipulative prank? They discuss.Next for more funhouse mirror television, they take up Bait, the Riz Ahmed-starring and created show about a Riz Ahmed-like actor vying for the role of James Bond. The show is stuffed with ideas and Ahmed’s charm, but they debate whether its conceptual martini sufficiently shaken or stirred.Finally, it’s time to go out, wear something nice, and push as they take a listen to Sexistential, the new album by Swedish dance pop queen Robyn. Though the “Dancing On My Own” singer has a new partner on the dancefloor in her young son, motherhood and midlife make for some real club classics.On a bonus episode for Plus subscribers, they take up the question, as posed in a recent New Yorker article, of whether “plagiarism is that bad?”EndorsementsRichard:&nbsp; The compulsively watchable time travel family drama <a href="https://www.hallmarkplus.com/details/TV_SHOW/collection/WAYHNA00/the-way-home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Way Home</a>, a Hallmark Channel Original. (And subscribing to <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-darlings/id1885681327" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Critical Darlings</a>)Nadira: The ten minute disco cover of "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1O5KH9jazzisCNv2AXOUyo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bridge Over Troubled Water</a>" by Linda Clifford and the album <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/wor%24t-girl-in-america/1867530577" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA</a> by Slayyyter.&nbsp;Dana: The new book by Mason Currey <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/making-art-and-making-a-living-adventures-in-funding-a-creative-life-mason-currey/48d2061522305029?ean=9781250824523&next=t" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Making Art and Making a Living</a> as well as his newsletter <a href="https://masoncurrey.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subtle Maneuvers</a>.--Email us your thoughts at <a href="mailto:culturefest@slate.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">culturefest@slate.com</a>.&nbsp;Podcast production by Benjamin Frisch. Production assistance by Daniel Hirsch.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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