Welcome. It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday, and some will be gathering in person with family for the first time in more than a year. It’s exciting! And maybe overwhelming. The emotions can be unexpected: Jorge Ramos had first date-style jitters before reuniting with his mother. If you’re feeling socially maladroit after so much social distance, we have some exercises to help you limber up. And if you’re vaccinated but your kids aren’t, take the advice of public health experts on what’s safe and what’s not.
Perhaps you’ll make brunch. Or take in a healing episode of the animated series “The Midnight Gospel.” Maybe you’ll turn the holiday on its ear and watch a movie called “Mother” or some variation thereof in which “the title women are mostly killers, menaces, sexual obsessives and sometimes all three.” (I loved Octavia Spencer in the thriller “Ma.”)
There’s lots to do this weekend, whether you’ve got big Mother’s Day plans or not. The final season of the wonderful series “Shrill” drops on Hulu today. Here’s a profile of Lolly Adefope, the British actress who plays Fran on the show. Elon Musk is hosting “Saturday Night Live,” and the response to the news has been mixed, from the public as well as the show’s own performers. The Metropolitan Opera’s 2011 staging of Philip Glass’s opera “Satyagraha,” about Gandhi’s early activism in South Africa, is finally available on DVD, and the critic Seth Colter Walls says it’s “one of the best Met productions of the 21st century.”
And Sofia Coppola made a 24-minute film for New York City Ballet’s virtual spring gala with the company’s resident choreographer and artistic adviser, Justin Peck. It’s on YouTube through May 20.