There is just something about summertime that makes me feel nostalgic.

Regular subscribers of this newsletter know it takes me back to memories of riding bikes with friends, waiting for the ice cream truck and catching fireflies in a Mason jar.

That's why I have to kick off this week with a time-travel series that speaks to my soul. May your future self enjoy it as much as I did.

Three things to watch

'Paper Girls'

What would you do if you met your 12-year-old self?

That's the premise of this new sci-fi series in which four young friends time-travel from 1988 to 2019. I loved the premise, but two words had me hooked: Ali Wong.

She's a costar and I will say no more.

Paper Girls is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

'Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin'

Here's another new series about a group of young women. This one is very different but still flows with the nostalgia theme.

If you at all were a fan of the original Pretty Little Liars, you know to expect drama. This iteration features a group of girls who are living 20 years after a series of tragic events almost ripped their blue-collar town apart.

The teens find themselves being tormented by an unknown assailant set on making them pay for what their parents did, hence the original sin in the show title.

The first three episodes are streaming on HBO Max, which like CNN is part of Warner Bros. Discovery.

'Uncoupled'

Remember Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother?

I'll never forget it, but I'm excited to embrace a new character.

In this new series, the actor plays a successful real estate agent who finds himself having to navigate New York City as a newly single gay man after losing the man he had thought was his soulmate.

Uncoupled is streaming on Netflix.

Two things to listen to

I mean, what more do I need to say other than Queen Bey?!?!?

Beyoncé's Renaissance album dropped Friday (though it reportedly had leaked on the internet Wednesday) so you may want to stay off social media if you don't care about that.

Because trust me, it will be Bey all day.

Sure, there are other artists whose new projects build excitement for their devoted fans. But when it comes to Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, her music always stirs conversation about culture, community and so much more.

We are ready, Queen.

It's not a full album yet, but three songs from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack are now available for streaming.

The songs are Bob Marley's No Woman, No Cry covered by Tems, A Body, a Coffin by Amaarae and Soy by Santa Fe Klan, and they have me anxiously awaiting the film's arrival later this fall.

Between the new music and the recently released teaser trailer, I am already in my feelings.

R.I.P., T'Challa.

One thing to talk about

Let's try this again.

Adele announced on Monday the rescheduled dates for her Las Vegas residency that had been postponed back in January, the day before it was supposed to start.

Needless to say, people who had tickets were upset. I did not have tickets. I still do not have tickets.

But what I do have is hope that with the new dates — and eight additional ones — I have another chance to try to see one of my favorite singers in Sin City after all.

Something to sip on

We are losing way too many of our actors who have starred as mobsters.

Paul Sorvino left us this week at the age of 83, two months after his Goodfellas costar Ray Liotta died in his sleep at the age of 67, and weeks after the deaths of The Sopranos star Tony Sirico at 79 and The Godfather star James Caan at the age of 82.

Sorvino also portrayed gangster Frank Costello on The Godfather of Harlem, and while he had a multitude of incredible roles, no one portrayed a mob guy like he did.

Perhaps surprisingly, Sorvino told Jon Stewart in 2015 that he almost quit the role of mob boss Paul Paulie Cicero in Goodfellas because he was really at a loss trying to find the toughness to portray him.

I'm really a very soft guy, Sorvino said.

So soft that he burst into tears when his daughter Mira Sorvino dedicated her 1996 best supporting actress Academy Award for her role in Mighty Aphrodite to him.

When you give me this award, you honor my father, Paul Sorvino, who has taught me everything I know about acting, she said at the time. I love you very much, Dad.

We loved him, too.