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Wicker and What’s Making Us Happy
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Wicker is somehow the coziest and horniest movie of the fall. Olivia Coleman and Alexander Skarsgård star as the unlikely couple: She’s a fisherwoman who commissions a husband literally made of wicker. The newly-kindled romance upends their small medieval town, where the men are the worst and the women are — surprise surprise — bored and unsatisfied with their own husbands. Are you looking for more Alexander Skarsgård? Check out these episodes: In ‘Pillion,’ submission is the mission 'Murderbot' envisions a caustically funny future Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour: Letterboxd...
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This week on the NPR Politics Podcast, Democrats think Texas could be a new battleground for success. The governor's race and the U.S. Senate race are competitive. But...
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We haven't even really talked very much about the fact that it is real super horny. Oh, it's very horny. Very horny. And I think the horniness of it is connected to the philosophical things in it.
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