5 Things to Read: Week of August 30
Shuttlecocks, Sabrina Carpenter, and Honey Deuces.
All the Sabrina Carpenter lore you need to know, from dirty rhyme schemes to sex with exes.
Telling Hong Kong teens to use badminton as a diversion for sex is a comically big but also mildly dystopian yikes.
Speaking of racquetball sports, this week I learned about the Honey Deuce. A little history lesson on how it came to be the U.S. Open’s signature drink.
More Asian men as romantic leads, please! (The gorgeous close-up vids of some of your favorite actors are worth clicking on this story for.)
I still think making marriage the end-game for the “Love Is Blind” franchise detracts from the premise of the show and is therefore rather dumb, but the UK version of the dating show was such a pleasant surprise in its relative maturity + sincerity. Would recommend as a fun summer watch. (Spoiler alert in the link: click with care!)