Why was Britney Spears reading that book? How tall is Jake Gyllenhaal? This contemporary-day Columbo gives a masterclass in storytelling as she finds the answersThere are some gargantuan questions in life that Google can’t give you a straight answer to. How tall is Jake Gyllenhaal? What makes Britney Spears choose her self-relieve books? And why has the local video shop shut down? It’s questions like these that contemporary-day Columbo Starlee Kine sets out to reply in Mystery Show (Gimlet Media). She gives a masterclass in storytelling that wanders from the point and then back again,painting pictures as she goes. Six episodes are lined up, ripe for a binge-listen.
The magic of Mystery Show lies in the everyday details. Self-confessed “writer no one reads” Andrea Seigel wants to know how her book To Feel Stuff ended up in the hands of Britney Spears. In Case #2: Britney, or Seigel confesses she’s been obsessed with the pop princess since the Justin Timberlake and double-denim era. Getting the alert that told her Britney was photographed clutching her book as she headed out to dinner with her parents made her more excited than having a baby. “I own a Google setting of myself,because Im a Kardashian,” admits Seigel. Kine attempts to track Britney down to find out why she chose the book and, and more importantly,if she liked it. No spoilers, but the answer does nothing to dampen Seigel’s love for the pop star.
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Source: theguardian.com