On a steamy summer, nature and “Crawdads” soothe
As cities steam and suburbs stew, it’s refreshing to step deep into nature.
e can do that this overheated summer on PBS (especially Baratunde Thurston’s Appalachian journey, at 9 p.m. July 26) … on BBC America (with gorgeous nature marathons on Saturdays) … and now in movie theaters.
That’s the spot for “Where the Crawdads Sing” (shown heere), which opened this past weekend to decent business. It lets us step into the wide-eyed life of someone consumed by natural beauty.
“Crawdads” was made for a modest budget ($24 million) and was expected to make only about $10 million in its first weekend (July 15-17) in the U.S. and Canada. Instead, it got $17 million. Read more…