A Show That Lovingly Pokes Fun at Gen Z

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Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained.

Today’s special guest is Emma Williams, an associate editor who helps oversee the magazine’s social media and has also written about her home state of Texas .

Emma is a habitual rewatcher of Normal People , a show that she says has resonated with her differently over time.

She also enjoys listening to her namesake Emmylou Harris, laughing over Adults episodes, and watching Hailee Catalano’s comforting cooking videos. — Stephanie Bai, senior associate editor The television show I’m most enjoying right now: The first scene of FX’s Adults tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the show: It’s crass, crude, absurd, and indulgently hilarious .

Adults pokes fun at Gen Z without being judgmental or predictable, and it features some familiarly ridiculous plights.

Maybe don’t watch it with your grandmother—but your spunky aunt is probably okay.

A quiet song that I love: I discovered the British DJ Fred Again when I was going down an NPR Tiny Desk Concert rabbit hole years ago.

I was immediately struck by his talent—but over time, I have come to better appreciate the emotion he evokes through his performances.

Even in his natural habitat, behind the DJ booth, Fred isn’t what you might normally expect from an EDM artist: He samples spoken-word poems, Zoom calls, and random internet videos to create songs that you can just as easily dance to as you can cry to.

I know I’m cheating a bit by saying that his entire Tiny Desk production is my favorite quiet song, but the fact that he was able to pull off an acoustic EDM performance is remarkable.

To re-create the sound of electronic beats, he used the marimba, the vibraphone, and the piano; he also pounded and tapped on a desk and layered in his soft, husky voice.

It is gentle, engrossing, and stupidly impressive.