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

Miley Cyrus has just been inducted into Disney’s Hall of Fame, the first among her generation of Disney stars. But 18 years after Hannah Montana released, we’re still wondering how her character got away with fooling everyone into believing she was a whole other person, merely by putting on a blonde wig. Then again, Superman did hide behind Clark Kent’s spectacles.

The movie version of It Ends With Us waters down what would have been a fiery indictment of domestic violence. Instead, it’s a sappy love story and a love triangle of the hopeless kind. [Spoiler alert] It ends with Lily reaching out to a former lover. Is there no happy ending without a man in 2024? And can a florist really afford that home and those clothes?

Suniel Shetty just bought all three Mumbai buildings where his father, Veerapa Shetty, worked his way up in the restaurant business, from table wiper to manager. The action star has revamped the properties too. No revenge arc. No fight scenes. We love this plot twist.

We’re still hooked on Reels of people cooking tiny foods over tiny fires in tiny utensils and plating them on tiny crockery. But where do all those mini carrots and potatoes come from? Are they grown? Are they fake? Are they actually made of foam? Who’s painting all of them so painstakingly? We’re not sure we want to know. We’d rather keep the mini-magic alive.

Disney has released so much info on its upcoming plans that we don’t know where to look. A villains’ land is coming to Magic Kingdom; Hollywood Studios will get a ride inspired by Monsters, Inc. Animal Kingdom is getting Indiana Jones and Encanto rides. Mufasa, Snow White, Frozen, Moana are getting sequels and threequels. Still no Anastasia remakes? Thank you. Dasvidaniya!

Womansplaining is a thing too. But not the thing you were expecting it to be. Instagram creator, Sabina Trojanova, says it’s the reverse of mansplaining. It’s when women who know what they’re talking about still sound unsure. They pepper conversations with ‘I think’, ‘Does this make sense?’ and ‘I could be wrong.’ Trojanova says women must stop undermining themselves. We don’t think – we agree.