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New York Post
30-06-2025
- New York Post
The Samsonite luggage that survived a Texas thunderstorm is 65% off before Prime Day
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. Your suitcase should be able to roll with all the punches. Storms included. If there is one brand we know is tough-as-steel, it's Samsonite. If there is a second thing we know, it's that this cult-favorite luggage line doesn't exactly throw deep discounts around. But right now — just before Amazon Prime Day — you can score Samsonite's nearly indestructible luggage for under $100. That's enough savings to cover a one-way ticket and airport snacks. Don't take it from me. Listen to Kendall Cornish, our commerce editor, longtime travel expert, and now part-time cowgirl. After trekking down to Texas, she decided to put her spinable, hardshell Samsonite set through the ultimate test: ranch life. I mean, if Samsonite can survive hours bumping around the back of an ATV, this luggage can certainly handle a five-star resort in Paris. Advertisement 'Let's just say it wasn't a glam jet-set test. I used the carry-on as a daily gear tote for the ranch, hauling everything from horse riding gear to bottles of plant fertilizer, rolling it through gravel paths and hard-packed clay,' Cornish recounted in her full review. 'The medium spinner sat in the back of a dusty ATV for several days, during which there was a Texas-sized thunderstorm (whoops).' There you have it. Whether you're heading off for a Fourth of July weekend away or braving the war zone known as TSA, these Samsonites are built to weather any storm, with sleek style, glide-like-a-dream wheels, and now, a pre-Prime Day price that won't send you into panic mode. Amazon The Samsonite Freeform 28″ Spinner offers a well-rounded option for travelers seeking lightweight (9.6 pounds), spacious (7.6″ x 20″ x 13″ interior), and stylish checked luggage. Its dual 360-degree spinner wheels provide smooth maneuverability, while the thoughtfully designed interior adds practical appeal. Backed by a 10-year warranty, it balances form and function at a competitive price point, especially while on sale. Available in several neutral shades and some brighter options, it's also remarkably easy to spot coming around the airport conveyor belt. For over 200 years, the New York Post has been America's go-to source for bold news, engaging stories, in-depth reporting, and now, insightful shopping guidance. We're not just thorough reporters – we sift through mountains of information, test and compare products, and consult experts on any topics we aren't already schooled specialists in to deliver useful, realistic product recommendations based on our extensive and hands-on analysis. Here at The Post, we're known for being brutally honest – we clearly label partnership content, and whether we receive anything from affiliate links, so you always know where we stand. We routinely update content to reflect current research and expert advice, provide context (and wit) and ensure our links work. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change.
Telegraph
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Happy Face, review: this Paramount+ series marks the nadir of true-crime ghastliness
Whatever else it is, Happy Face (Paramount+) marks the moment where true-crime ate itself. Take the smiley emoji you've been using so gleefully and drag it to the trash – it now signifies Happy Face, a drama inspired by a hit podcast that itself is taken from a bestselling book. Both the book and podcast are based on the true-life story of Melissa Jesperson-Moore, who, aged 15, discovered her father was the American serial murderer known as the Happy Face Killer (he used to scrawl smiley faces on his mocking notes to the police) and is currently serving life in prison. As an adult, Jesperson-Moore changed her name (to Melissa Reid; she's here played by Annaleigh Ashford), guarded her secret and cut off all ties to him. With all of that known and widely disseminated, indeed with a true-crime megabrand that already comes with its own logo, what possible purpose can Happy Face the TV show serve? Remove all of its baggage and it is a perfectly serviceable eight-hour TV thriller, but remove all of its baggage and you remove its entire purpose. So instead Happy Face adds more and more, like the flappy hatch of an airport carousel spewing out clingfilm-wrapped Samsonites. In this telling, Melissa works as a make-up artist on a TV talk show. As soon as production staff get a sniff that one of their colleagues might have a story, they latch on to her and basically force her to spill. It bespeaks a distinctly unsavoury sensationalist lust ('Watch out for tears, people!' says one line producer in the gantry as Melissa is asked if she worries that she's like her father) but it is also precisely the same sensationalist lust that undergirds Happy Face (the book, the podcast, the surely-inevitable podcast about the TV show and the even-more inevitable 2032 movie starring Nicole Kidman with a prosthetic nose, etc.) With monumental reluctance, I have looked up the Happy Face story, and I can report that wasted hours on the internet have left me none the wiser where the true bits of this true crime story end and the TV fluffing for content begins. I probably could have found out more if I'd listened to the podcast and read the book, but if you head down the rabbit-hole you're just monetising the game. And the reason Happy Face marks the nadir of true-crime ghastliness is that it seems to realise that this is all a game – as Melissa embarks on some sleuthing of her own to try and find out whether or not her father killed a ninth girl (and whether, therefore, an innocent man is on death row), the show veers dangerously close to jauntiness. Melissa warms to playing detective like an extra in Only Murders in the Building. Dennis Quaid as her skittish killer/father serves up an overblown performance somewhere between Hannibal Lecter and the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. None of this, it should be said again, makes for a particularly bad TV show – taken on its own terms Happy Face does keep you gripped through to the eighth hour. But the whole point of true-crime telly is that it is not to be taken on its own terms – it actually happened. Somewhere, several rights deals in the background, there are eight dead women and their families. One doesn't have to lapse into sententiousness to see that they are only further obscured by each new iteration, and all in the name of the true-crime gold rush.
