Now that students are back on campus after their spring break adventures, columnists Patrick Gunn and Nate Spurlin recap the movies, TV shows and music they enjoyed during their week off.

HALEY ROBERTSON: Hi everyone, welcome back to Extra Pulp. I’m your co-host, Haley Robertson.

DIANA RIOJAS: And I’m Diana Riojas, here with you guys, too.

ROBERTSON: And today we have a couple columnists who are going to fill us in on what they watched on TV, watched movies and what they listened to over break. So first we have Screen Time columnist Patrick Gunn. Thank you for joining us today, Patrick.

GUNN: Thank you for having me.

ROBERTSON: So what TV shows did you check out over spring break?

GUNN: Well the main show that I watched was Netflix’s “Sex Education,” which is about a high schooler in Britain who is sexually oppressed, but using the knowledge he’s gained from his mother, who’s a sex therapist, he starts an underground sex therapy ring at his high school with a girl who’s on the other end of the popularity spectrum.

And what this show has that other coming-of-age films — especially taking place during high school — lack, is this knowledge and awareness of its characters that basically, no character is perfect. No character is completely without their flaws, but no character is also completely unredeemable and that just makes it a lot more fun to watch. Also, it’s hilarious. It’s one of the funniest written shows of the year and it’s just very intimate in the way it captures high school — similar to a movie I saw, “Eighth Grade,” last year.

Also another show I started — didn’t really get through, was “Barry” from HBO, Bill Hader’s show about an assassin who’s not happy with his job so he decides to take up acting. And there’s something really striking about the show. First of all, it’s incredibly well-shot, but also Bill Hader really gets to show a little bit of normality and grounds the show, but also adding the writing and direction side of it, so it’s just a really interesting watch so far. I can’t wait to finish.

RIOJAS: And anything on the silver screen you want to shout out, too?

GUNN: Yes, there is. There was one movie I got to see in theaters so far, and that was “Captain Marvel,” the newest MCU film starring Carol Danvers, really about her identity and it’s a really fun ride especially for Marvel fans. The film got a kind of mixed reception but the action’s a lot of fun, there’s a great 90s soundtrack in there. The core of the film is Brie Larson as Captain Marvel, and she’s a really great addition that fits right into the MCU. It’s a total ride for MCU fans and it’s got Samuel L. Jackson throughout most of the movie, how can you not love that?

ROBERTSON: Thanks Patrick and if you haven’t checked it out yet, you can read Patrick’s full review of Captain Marvel on dailyorange.com. Now switching gears to the music scene, we have music columnist Nate Spurlin.

Thanks for joining us today,  Nate.

SPURLIN: Thank you for having me.

ROBERTSON: And what were you listening over spring break this year?

SPURLIN: One album that really stood out to me over spring break was Juice Wrld’s “Death Race for Love,” and that came out on March 8.

ROBERTSON: And what were your thoughts on the album?

SPURLIN:  It’s a very dense album. You can tell that on this album, Juice Wrld really wanted to find his own sound. He has some songs where he experiments with the rock sound a little bit. He has some songs where he experiments with the Florida sound that we come to know from rappers like Ski Mask (the Slump God) or XXXTentacion.  

And we also have him doing normal stuff like his songs, on “Goodbye & Good Riddance.”

RIOJAS: Awesome and is there anything that people at Syracuse University should be getting excited for in the music scene?

SPURLIN: We have a big concert coming up. It’s actually the first hip-hop concert of the semester. We have Chief Keef and PnB Rock coming on March 21 at Goldstein Auditorium. And that show will start at 6:30 (p.m.). It’s being hosted by the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity on campus.

RIOJAS: Awesome and anything interesting about Chief Keef that people should come out for?

SPURLIN: Chief Keef is a legend, man. He’s one of the rappers that really pioneered that Chicago sound. You hear a lot of rappers nowadays like copying his ability to use the flow — that I like to call the “A flow” where you rap and then you stop with the “A” and that keeps you on beat. A rapper that comes to mind who did that really, really well is Lil Uzi Vert. On many of his songs, on his debut mixtape, “Love Is Rage.”

RIOJAS: Thanks Nate for catching up on all things music and be sure to see Chief Keef this Thursday night. Tickets are on sale at Schine Box Office for $10 and we’ll see you next time on Extra Pulp.

Published on March 18, 2019 at 10:20 pm