Joel Mchale

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Recommended by Joel Mchale

Go buy the new Richard Ayoade’s book “On Top”. It is by far the best deep dive critical examination of @gwynethpaltrow’s film View From The Top. #richardayoade #ontopbook #itcrowd @ Los Angeles, California https://t.co/mQtCG8k2p8 (from X)

Ayoade On Top book cover

by Richard Ayoade·You?

At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most "insubstantial" people of our age, takes us on a journey from Peckham to Paris by way of Nevada and other places we don’t care about. It’s a journey deep within, in a way that’s respectful and non-invasive; a journey for which we will all pay a heavy price, even if you’ve waited for the smaller paperback edition. Ayoade argues for the canonization of this brutal masterpiece, a film that celebrates capitalism in all its victimless glory; one we might imagine Donald Trump himself half-watching on his private jet’s gold-plated flat screen while his other puffy eye scans the cabin for fresh, young prey.