{"id":52215,"date":"2022-07-01T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T10:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-guide-41-from-hacks-to-kendrick-lamar-the-year-s-best-pop-culture-so-far"},"modified":"2022-07-01T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T10:45:14","slug":"the-guide-41-from-hacks-to-kendrick-lamar-the-year-s-best-pop-culture-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-guide-41-from-hacks-to-kendrick-lamar-the-year-s-best-pop-culture-so-far","title":{"rendered":"The Guide #41: From Hacks to Kendrick Lamar, the year&#8217;s best pop culture &#8230; so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendrick Lamar performs at the Glastonbury Festival, 26 June 2022.Terrifyingly, given that it was January just two minutes ago, we have reached the mid-point of 2022. A good time, then, to take stock of culture for the year so far. You might have already read the roundups from the Guardian&#8217;s culture desk, and here are even more, with The Guide&#8217;s own picks across TV, music and film, along with a few of our readers&#8217; faves. Strap in!Sign up for the Guide to get the best pop-culture journalism direct to your inbox.TVIn what was one of the best six months for television that I can remember, Severance (Apple TV+) stood tallest. Profound, funny, unsettling and packed full of monster twists, this dark comedy-drama about employees who have their brains split between work and non-work modes took its concept and really ran with it. Station Eleven&#8217;s (Starzplay) tale of a deadly flu pandemic and the world it created should have been the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrifyingly, given that it was January just two minutes ago, we have reached the mid-point of 2022. A good time, then, to take stock of culture for the year so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,106],"tags":[296,19,175,163],"class_list":["post-52215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv-videos","tag-apple-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-pizza","tag-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}