Modern Beauty Trends: What to Watch, Stream, and Listen To in November 2017: An In & Out Pop Culture Guide

Call Me By Your Name finally hits theaters and Björk is out with a new album. What to watch, stream, and listen to in November.
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In this special monthly edition of In & Out, we’re looking a full month ahead and sorting through November’s cultural calendar for you. Here are our picks for what you’ll need to consume to keep up with polite dinner party conversation, what you’ll be secretly binging late at night, and what’s best to just avoid.

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What You Need to Know:

Film: Despite amassing a dedicated fan base already on Twitter and teen girl Tumblr, Call Me By Your Name has not actually been released to the wider public yet. With a highly sensual love story between leads Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet (and, also, in one scene, a peach), the movie has earned raves and caused tears on the festival circuit. You can finally see it for yourself on November 24. On November 10, Frances McDormand makes her strongest bid for a best actress Oscar since Fargo with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and the film has the potential to be cathartic. McDormand stars as a single mother who lets out her righteous rage at her local police force after they fail to make an arrest in the violent murder of her daughter and the town starts to turn against her. On November 17, Netflix releases the film that could make it an Oscar contender: director Dee Rees’s Mudbound, an exploration of racism and PTSD in the post–World War II American South. Mary J. Blige very well could wind up nominated for her supporting turn. Chilean film A Fantastic Woman arrives on our shores also on November 17, and leading lady Daniela Vega, a transgender woman, could very well end up breaking boundaries come awards season.

Television: Director Steven Soderbergh finally returned to film this summer with Logan Lucky, but his strongest work this year may be on TV...or something sort of like TV. Netflix premieres his seven-part Western miniseries, Godless, on November 20, but his other series is already in the app store. Yes, the director released a choose-your-own-adventure series this month called Mosaic, starring Sharon Stone, as an app. The story the app begins will conclude on HBO in January. Meanwhile, Amazon and Netflix give us two female-fronted spins on shows about stand-up comedians. On Amazon, Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino gives us The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on November 29. It’s about a 1950s housewife who leaves her husband and decides to try comedy. Netflix gives us the second season of Lady Dynamite on November 10. It’s Maria Bamford’s fearless and darkly comedic exploration of her own career and her battles with mental health.

Music: Last month we let Björk interview Björk, and she told herself her upcoming album, Utopia, would be “a speculation of what our fantasies are and what the reality is and where can they help each other.” You can find out what that means for yourself on November 24. Swedish pop star Tove Lo had a minor hit last year with Nick Jonas, but returns with a new solo album on November 17 called Blue Lips. The first single, “Disco Tits,” came with a video that featured a love scene with a puppet. So, in summation, this month (and every month) you should listen to fearless, unapologetically artsy female musicians.

What You’ll Actually Enjoy

Film: Justice League feels like a pivotal moment for the DC Cinematic Universe. This summer’s Wonder Woman was the absolute high point for the shaky series so far. Now the superhero team will try to get their house in order with their first joint effort on November 17. Meanwhile, from a studio with a far more solid track record, Pixar releases its latest, Coco, on November 22. Teenage boys will probably appreciate both.

Television: On November 23, Spike Lee is reinventing his seminal film She’s Gotta Have It as a Netflix series, and this time lead character Nola Darling is “a sex positive, polyamorous, pansexual.” The trailer has us eagerly anticipating this one. Last year, Search Party debuted on TBS as one of the best under-the-radar comedies on TV. It returns November 19 at 10 p.m. Hulu this month gives us two shows that hope to mix geek with teenage chic. The producers of Gossip Girl take on minor Marvel characters with Runaways on November 21, while Josh Hutcherson stars in the Seth Rogan–produced video game fantasy Future Man on November 14.

Music: You’ll either love the album or love subtweeting about it, but either way Taylor Swift’s Reputation arrives on November 10. Also debuting on November 10: a bunch of tweets trying to figure out which lyrics correspond to which of her many public feuds.

What You Can Skip

Film: The original Daddy’s Home, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, was a critical bomb, but apparently it made enough money for Hollywood to decide to not only make Daddy’s Home 2 (November 10), but to invite Mel Gibson into the cast as well. We doubt either move will be worth it. Meanwhile, Murder on the Orient Express (November 10) may give us some of our favorites like Penélope Cruz, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Judi Dench in the same cast, but critics say that Kenneth Branagh’s remake of the classic Agatha Christie story goes completely off the rails with too much going on and too little of it proving satisfying.

Television: In a sign that our culture may be regressing, eight years after the premiere of Jersey Shore, MTV decided to dust off the format for Floribama Shore. It’s exactly what you think: drunk kids in Panama City Beach.

Music: Um, Billy Ray Cyrus is still making music and releasing Set the Record Straight on November 10. It will feature a Miley duet, though.