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One Good Thing

One Good Thing

Recommendations from the world of culture we think you should check out.

One Good Thing: A food memoir about love, grief, and lockdown

By Constance Grady

One Good Thing: A new classic of country heartbreak

By Emily St. James

One Good Thing: A Danish drama lets its girlbosses fail

By Anna North

One Good Thing: Two ’90s Asian films that capture the loneliness of modern life

By Terry Nguyen

One Good Thing: Musician Ethel Cain nurses Gen-Z America’s broken heart

By Emily St. James

One Good Thing: A French reality show with high-end homes and low-stakes drama

By Terry Nguyen

One Good Thing: 107 minutes of Wall Street traders behaving badly

By Dylan Matthews

Two Good Things: Sad kids’ movies about magical seals

By Emily St. James

One Good Thing: The Jane Campion film that captures spring euphoria

By Valerie Lapinski

One Good Thing: Watching the cherry blossoms in the end times

By Bryan Walsh

Saving Face is a delightful queer rom-com — and a love letter to Asian moms

By Terry Nguyen

One Good Thing: The cartoon dog who taught me how to be a dad

By Bryan Walsh

One Good Thing: The Two Fat Ladies proved pleasure was for every body

By Keren Landman

One Good Thing: Conversations with strangers, which I missed so much

By Alissa Wilkinson

One Good Thing: Have you heard of this Shakespeare guy? Pretty good!

By Constance Grady

One Good Thing: Les Mis is here to complicate your joy

By Siobhan McDonough

One Good Thing: Garlic, a perfect food

By Alissa Wilkinson

One Good Thing: 32 years after its debut, Microsoft Solitaire is still a blissful time-waster

By Emily St. James

One Good Thing: An unsolicited dik-dik pic

By Benji Jones

One Good Thing: The hit feminist concubine drama that annoyed the Chinese Communist Party

By Aja Romano

Kevin G. from Mean Girls is my favorite lifestyle influencer

By Constance Grady

The Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington movie everybody forgot

By Emily St. James

One Good Thing: The movie you have to see if you loved Drive My Car

By Alissa Wilkinson

One Good Thing: The messy, glorious music videos of Paul Thomas Anderson

By Alissa Wilkinson

One Good Thing: The movie that first made me sit up and take note of Jessie Buckley

By Alissa Wilkinson

3 Oscar nominees, one little-seen musical about cheerleaders

By Constance Grady

One Good Thing: Music to dance to as a hurricane bears down

By Emily St. James

One Good Thing: Love & Basketball is proof that sports can be sexy

By Jayson Buford

Sam and Diane were TV’s first big romance — and maybe still its best

By Emily St. James

One Good Thing: The Left Hand of Darkness showed us that the greatest romances in life can be friendships

By Muizz Akhtar

Hades tells a love story through song and side quest

By Neel Dhanesha

One Good Thing: The celebrity art couple who turned love into performance

By Terry Nguyen

One Good Thing: A game that turns romance into a teetering tower, doomed to fall

By Emily St. James

One Good Thing: Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask taught me about love

By Victoria Dominguez

One Good Thing: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is funny, just like love

By Siobhan McDonough

One Good Thing: A park for the filthy rich and the rest of us, too

By Tim Ryan Williams

One Good Thing: A soothing tabletop game about birds

By Brian Anderson

One Good Thing: Nothing in Criminal Minds makes sense and it’s perfect

By Emily Stewart

One Good Thing: ABC’s Abbott Elementary breathes new life into the mockumentary

By Emily St. James

One Good Thing: The impish joy of the board game Sushi Go Party!

By Emily St. James