Content Consumed: Tom Brady, Beyoncé, and HBO’s Industry
Goooood afternoon! I hope you’re all having a wonderful Wednesday. In today’s edition of Content Consumed, we’re chatting about…
🏈 Tom Brady’s retiring (again)
🎥 HBO’s Industry almost did something
🔮 Beyoncé world tour predictions
Tom Brady’s retiring (for real?)
One divorce later… he’s retiring again.
“Wouldn’t change a thing,” Tom Brady said in his (second) retirement video announcement—not even the pump-fake retirement last year and losing season this year, apparently.
Everyone’s got jokes. Recycled memes from when he retired last year. Because it is, objectively, funny! This morphing GIF will forever haunt me, though.
A rumor I very much believe: Tom Brady will un-retire a third time in July to save the Niners and their lack of healthy QBs. This man is addicted to football.
I tried to like HBO’s ‘Industry’ so hard
Before I watched Industry (currently halfway through the second season, begrudgingly), I’d heard it was basically a young, British Succession.
And yeah, that’s somewhat accurate. Except…
- The main character is a young American woman named Harper who is so illogically self-destructive yet, apparently, impossibly good at her job. It makes no sense. In every episode she commits a fireable offense and then ruins her own personal life, but it’s always okay in the end. Not in an interesting TV way, but just in an unrealistic way.
- The tropes become so repetitive that each episode feels the same. Sex and cocaine, mixing business and pleasure—over and over and over again.
- Succession does a great job of balancing actual business and financial jargon with smooth-talking personal relationships. Industry does not. If you don’t already have quite a bit of knowledge about investment banking, you’re screwed.
These three main flaws make it impossible to be loved by fans of all backgrounds like Succession.
Uneducated Beyoncé world tour predictions
Beyoncé just announced her Renaissance world tour, an extensive run through Europe and North America that stretches from May to September.
My unproven predictions for the 41-stop tour:
- Her scoundrel of a husband, Jay-Z, will join her to perform in Paris and New York.
- She’ll have a total of 5 openers throughout the tour, and one of them will be a country singer. Megan Thee Stallion should join for Houston where they’ll perform “Savage (Remix)” together.
- There will be a ton of activation events around the actual concert, and they’ll cost a lot but they’ll be worth it—think disco parties and big merch drops.
- Ticketmaster will screw up again like they did with Taylor Swift’s Era Tour sales, but not quite as badly. It’s gonna be messy.
And that’s it from me today! Be sure to follow this column to get more culture, sports, and entertainment analysis and chatter every weekday. Thanks for reading!
Cheers,
Casey
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