Streaming Suggestion of the Week #43: Lady Bird

Stream what: Writer-director Greta Gerwig shows us a year in the life of one high schooler in the early 2000s.

Stream why: Lady Bird manages to be fresh and relatable and authentic and funny and sad all at the same time.

Stream where: Amazon Prime and Kanopy.

Connection to previous Wreckage: Lady Bird was Rec. #673.

Streaming Suggestion of the Week #42: Green Wing

Stream what: This lightly surreal British comedy takes place in a hospital, but absolutely no attention whatsoever is paid to patients. The humor is all about the characters' personal lives, not their jobs.

Stream why: It's hilarious and it's bizarre and sometimes that's just what you need.

Stream where: Amazon Prime

Connections to previous Wreckage: Green Wing was Rec. #110. Also, Olivia Colman is in it (Rec. #759)! (John Oliver also has a tiny, tiny role in the first episode.)

Streaming Suggestion of the Week #41: Take Me to the World

Stream what: This 90th-birthday celebration for living legend Stephen Sondheim is two-and-a-half hours of taped-ahead-streamed-live theater magnificence.

(And unlike the actual live stream from April 26, this video doesn't start with one hour of technical problems.)

Stream why: Remember real, identifiable emotions that weren't "nameless dread"?? Feel them all here!

There is so much good, amazing stuff. The highest highlights for me personally are Katrina Lenk's "Johanna"; Alexander Gemignani's "Buddy's Blues"; Ann Harada, Austin Ku, Kelvin Moon Loh, and Thom Sesma's "Someone in a Tree"; and, of course, Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep, and Audra McDonald's "The Ladies Who Lunch."

Stream where: YouTube. And donate to ASTEP if you can.



Connections from previous Wreckage: For more Sondheim, see also Rec. #99: Company, Rec. #215: The Last of Sheila, Rec. #511: The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened, and Rec. #557: Sondheim Lyrics on Twitter.