The Brunch round-up: The week and how it made us feel

This week we are humming along to Daisy Jones And The Six, standing up for animals on set, baffled about #QuitTok and cheering for a new cultural venue

This week we’re

• Humming along to an imaginary band.

  Daisy Jones And The Six weren’t a real ’70s rock group. They exist only on a show of the same name on Amazon Prime. The show isn’t too great, either. The episodes are long, the intercuts with the present seem forced. They make drama out of nothing. But the music? It’s like discovering a Fleetwood Mac playlist no one knew existed. Plus, Daisy Jones is played by Elvis’s granddaughter, Riley Keough, who can thankfully act and sing.
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  Sure we shall not let this pass.

  After a horse died of a cardiac arrest on the sets of The Rings of Power, PETA has once again spoken up, urging film and TV productions to use CGI instead of putting living, breathing creatures at risk. It’s 2023, we can imagine entire worlds (hello, Avatar), create animals (Puss in Boots, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, The Jungle Book) and depict people ageing backwards (Benjamin Button). Can we leave animals alone?
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  Baffled and a little envious.

  Heroes go quietly. But it takes a true genius to set up the moment they quit their job, record it for social media and post it using the #QuitTok hashtag. The clips show the exact moment of sending that final snarky email or joining that last zoom call. The first of these shots were fired in July 2021, when a clip of UK McDonald’s workers quitting mid-shift went viral. This season, it’s a way to get a little more mileage out of a resignation.
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  Bringing out our silks and pearls.

  Because Mumbai, which makes no room for living, just made a whole lotta room for culture. The new Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre at the Bandra-Kurla Complex has a 2,000 seat grand theatre; smaller, more intimate stages; a four-storey art gallery; and other performance and display zones. As any culture vulture knows, curation is key. Let’s see how the centre shapes up.
• Wondering which is the cutest pooch of them all.

  The Labrador Retriever has just been dethroned as America’s top dog by the French Bulldog, according to the American Kennel Club. This ends 31 years of the Lab’s reign as the epitome of cuteness. Makes sense, because who doesn’t love a Bulldog? Ruff going for Labs, though.