Hear that? No, it's not Carmy pounding on the fridge door, begging for an escape just so he can trade fists with Richie. Or the whack! of a gavel, so we can all crowd around and dupe an unsuspecting—yet very sweet!—Ronald Gladden. It's definitely not the mutated growls of a Last of Us fungus monster. (I hope.) No. It's the sweet sound of yours truly having a yearly throwdown over the best television shows of the year, whittling down our running list into a lean, mean top 10. |
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Want your scent to stick around? Turn to one of these heroes of longevity. |
| It's time for a matching set and you know it. |
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One day in November of 2019, the comedian Gary Gulman was scrolling on his phone when a Tweet caught his attention. Jason Zinoman, the comedy critic for the New York Times, had posed a relatively innocuous question to his followers: "What stand-up have you liked that is about class (however you want to define it)?" The prompt intrigued Gulman. He realized couldn't think of a comedian who'd built a whole act around socio-economic status. George Carlin had touched on the topic, certainly, with riffs about how the ruling class operates to keep themselves on top. And plenty of comedians had made fun of rich people for being out of touch or joked about being poor themselves. "But I hadn't seen anybody who made the entire hour about class," says Gulman. "And I thought, 'Oh, that's it! That's a great area.' And then I just started." |
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Your upholstery will outlast even the next generation. |
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My full-time job is writing about menswear, but my other full-time job—the one I don't get paid for but still do for, like, eight hours a day—is watching TV. I love TV! And 2023 was a fucking great year for people like me, who Google things like "where to find jason oppenheim gucci shirt selling sunset season 7" on my tiny screen while Selling Sunset Season 7 plays on my bigger screen in the background. From reality TV to scripted dramas to scripted TV that was also sort of reality (I'm looking at you, Jury Duty), this year was absolutely major for leading men, and, as a result, menswear worthy of a leading man. Loyal Esquire readers will know how deeply Kendall Roy was on his style game in the final season of Succession this past spring, turning out quietly luxurious Loro Piana and Tom Ford looks paired with a mental breakdown every Sunday night. Across the pond, Ted Lasso's Jamie Tartt went a different route with loud, in-your-face luxury, from Stone Island coveralls to Dsquared2 accessories. |
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