From there, it’s on to a conversation about “Bridget Jones’s Baby” and “Snowden,” two films with nothing in common — well, except for their unpopularity at the American box office and Wesley’s observation that the experience of watching this new incarnation of Renée Zellweger’s Bridget Jones is not unlike spending more than two hours listening to Joseph Gordon-Levitt speak in Edward Snowden’s voice: distractions!

Jenna schools Wesley in the international tragedy of the Snowden disclosures, and Wesley shrugs at the relative sanity of Oliver Stone’s filmmaking.

Ultimately, the week’s events prove too much for us. So we escape to Bryant Park, where Jenna gives Wesley some advice on how to detox from a particularly intense spate of police shootings, political insults and, yes, superstar divorce. Because, sometimes, when you lack the power to generate miracles, you just have to settle for a massage.

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