Apres Culture

This week we’re toasting the Emerald Isle with a look at John Ford’s 1952 Maureen O’Hara/John Wayne romance, The Quiet Man, and Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s ungilded look at married life, Catastrophe. It’s two very different American men falling for two very different Irish women in two very different eras—and we have thoughts. Pull up a chair and pray you can understand the waitress’s thick County Cork accent—it’s time for Après Culture. Tipple of the Week: Guinness We’re sure there’s a proper way to pour this stuff, and we encourage you to look up whatever article Esquire or GQ or The Boston Globe wrote about it. Next Week Sitcom reboots: the recent, critically acclaimed Norman Lear revival One Day at a Time, and the hotly anticipated (slash slightly dreaded?) Roseanne. Resources On The Quiet Man (scroll past the Rob Nixon nonsense down to the Deborah Looney article): http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24069/The-Quiet-Man/articles.html https://film.avclub.com/john-wayne-goes-to-ireland-for-what-shou