The Spinoff\u2019s winners and losers of the week. <\/p>\n
It was a good week to be a school lunch. After gaining national notoriety for being \u201cdisgusting\u201d<\/a>, burning a kid<\/a> and either showing up frozen<\/a> or not at all, their fame was starting to fade. Then David Seymour stepped in and stripped the te reo M\u0101ori from the name Ka Ora Ka Ako | Healthy School Lunches because \u201cpeople need to know what things are\u201d for a much-needed shot of controversy.<\/p>\n It was a bad week to be a Winter Olympics medal, several of which broke shortly after being awarded \u2013 including a silver belonging to New Zealand sensation Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, which broke after it \u201cwhacked [her] snowboard\u201d<\/a>. Actually, though, maybe this is the moment the Winter Olympics finally become relatable \u2013 it\u2019s hard to feel a connection to elite athletes, what with all the counting grams of protein and early nights. Easier to get what it\u2019s like to feel shiny as fuck one minute and a broken mess the next.<\/p>\n It was a good week to be a turd, floating free in the Cook Strait off Wellington\u2019s south coast<\/a> and more famous than ever before.<\/p>\n It was a bad week to be the long-buried past. More than two years into the government\u2019s term, Nicola Willis, minister of finance and chief cemetery worker, has decided to exhume the Reserve Bank\u2019s pandemic response. The review into the bank will be complete just before the election. Standing graveside, as Willis handed monetary policy experts Athanasios Orphanides and David Archera shovels, Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick called the timing \u201ca bit sus\u201d. Willis said the timing made sense because there\u2019s a refreshed Reserve Bank board and a new governor. No one and nothing is resting in peace.<\/p>\n It was a good week for Lorde fans as our pop superstar finally brought her Ultrasound tour home to T\u0101maki Makaurau to rave reviews. She arrived on stage wearing a Blues T-shirt, so it\u2019s probably the best week Auckland\u2019s Super Rugby franchise has had in a while too.<\/p>\n It was a bad week for director Emerald Fennell, whose adaptation of Wuthering Heights has been met with withering reviews from bookish sticklers and cinephiles alike. The Guardian called it \u201ca hollow, bodice-ripping misfire<\/a>\u201d, Roger Ebert said it feels like \u201can artificial music video<\/a>\u201d and The AV Club called it \u201coverlong and undersexed<\/a>.\u201d The Spinoff\u2019s Claire Mabey came off the top ropes with this: \u201call the horse tackle, shiny red floors and that gelatinous fish are pointless distractions from a weak script that sought to reduce a complex, brilliant story down to something you might chuck on on a rainy day after you\u2019ve finished bingeing Bridgerton.\u201d<\/p>\n It was a good week for food preparation professionals in need of industrial quantities of whipped cream, because those 2kg canisters of Miami Magic Infusions<\/a> will be perfectly suited to their needs, and clearly are not used for anything else.<\/p>\n