The surprise must-see movie of the summer

今夏令人惊喜的必看电影

Plus, in this week’s Installer: Google’s new Pixel, an old controller comes back, the TV Time successor, and much more. 在本周的《Installer》中：谷歌新款 Pixel 手机、经典手柄的回归、TV Time 的继任者，以及更多精彩内容。

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 140, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, don’t forget to hydrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) 朋友们好！欢迎来到第 140 期《Installer》，这是你探索全球最棒、最“Verge”风格事物的指南。（如果你是新朋友，欢迎加入，别忘了多喝水，你也可以在《Installer》主页阅读往期内容。）

This week, I’ve been reading about Will Ferrell and Fabrizio Romano and Heather Cox Richardson, scrolling and scrolling through Ordinary Abundance, watching Avatar Aang (which is as good as you said it was), finally getting proficient in CapCut, obsessing over the latest scandal unearthed by PTFO, rewatching Tires now that the third season is out, trying Spark’s AI tools for solving my inbox (so far… meh), revisiting Reply All after the great Hyperfixed episode about its end, and trying to get all my dentist, doctor, haircut, and other appointments done before this baby arrives. 这周，我一直在阅读关于 Will Ferrell、Fabrizio Romano 和 Heather Cox Richardson 的文章，在《Ordinary Abundance》中不断刷屏，观看了《Avatar Aang》（确实如你们所说的那样精彩），终于熟练掌握了 CapCut，沉迷于 PTFO 挖掘出的最新丑闻，在《Tires》第三季上线后重温该剧，尝试用 Spark 的 AI 工具来处理收件箱（目前为止……感觉一般），在听完关于其终结的精彩《Hyperfixed》剧集后重温了《Reply All》，并努力在宝宝出生前完成所有牙医、医生、理发等预约。

This is my last Installer before heading out on parental leave! Thanks to everyone who has sent well wishes and sleep tips. I need them all. For the next several weeks, you’ll be in the very good hands of Jay Peters, and I’ll be back in early October. For now, though, I also have for you the new phone hotness from Google, a shockingly good dinosaur movie, a look at the Chinese tech industry, and much more. Let’s do this. 这是我休产假前的最后一期《Installer》！感谢所有送来祝福和睡眠建议的朋友，我太需要这些了。接下来的几周，你们将由 Jay Peters 照顾，我会在十月初回归。不过现在，我还要为你们带来谷歌的新款热门手机、一部令人惊艳的恐龙电影、对中国科技行业的观察，以及更多内容。让我们开始吧。

(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you watching / reading / playing / listening to / packing in a cooler this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.) （一如既往，《Installer》最棒的部分就是你们的想法和建议。这周你在看什么、读什么、玩什么、听什么，或者在冷藏箱里装了什么？告诉我一切：installer@theverge.com。如果你认识其他可能喜欢《Installer》的人，请转发给他们并告诉他们在这里订阅。）

The Drop

推荐清单

The End of Oak Street. A little bit Wizard of Oz, a little bit Jurassic Park, a premise that nobody expected to work that apparently completely, totally, 100 percent works! This seems to be everybody’s pick for the surprise hit movie of the summer, and I cannot wait to see it. 《The End of Oak Street》。 有点像《绿野仙踪》，又有点像《侏罗纪公园》，这个没人看好的前提设定竟然完全、彻底、百分之百地成功了！这似乎成了大家心目中今夏最令人惊喜的热门电影，我迫不及待想去看了。

Unforgetful. Marco Arment likes the Apple Reminders system but doesn’t like the Reminders app itself, so he built a better one — and wow is it a better one. With the better notifications and snoozing, plus a design I much prefer, I think this could be all the to-do list a lot of people need. 《Unforgetful》。 Marco Arment 喜欢苹果的提醒系统，但不喜欢“提醒”App 本身，于是他开发了一个更好的——哇，它确实更好。凭借更出色的通知和稍后提醒功能，加上我更偏爱的设计，我认为这可能是许多人所需的唯一待办事项清单工具。

The Google Pixel 11. Look, I don’t think this is the most exciting year in Pixel history. (And the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is still the most interesting phone of 2026.) But Google has the best take on Android, the most useful AI tools, and in this case some really thoughtful ideas about smartphone cameras. If you’re going Pixel this year? I’d start with the base model. 谷歌 Pixel 11。 听着，我不认为这是 Pixel 历史上最令人兴奋的一年。（Galaxy Z Fold 8 依然是 2026 年最有趣的手机。）但谷歌对 Android 的理解最深刻，拥有最实用的 AI 工具，而且这次在智能手机摄像头方面也有一些非常巧妙的想法。如果你今年打算买 Pixel？我会建议从基础款入手。

Lanterns. Speaking of surprises! “Let’s do more Green Lantern stuff” is a sentence no one has said in a very long time. But a gritty, buddy-cop drama brought to you by Damon Lindelof appears to be just the thing this story needed — I’m pretty hard to hook on a superhero story, honestly, but I’m signing up for this one. 《Lanterns》。 说到惊喜！“让我们多做点绿灯侠的内容吧”这句话已经很久没人说过了。但由 Damon Lindelof 带来的这部硬核搭档警匪剧似乎正是这个故事所需要的——老实说，我很难被超级英雄故事吸引，但我已经准备好追这部剧了。

“What I found in China’s city of the future.” Tom from Byte Review went to Shenzhen — as did Isaac from Canoopsy — and came back with interesting footage and interesting ideas about how China has embraced tech. Boy are the reasons for that complicated, and about a lot more than the tech industry. But there are some fascinating products in these videos. “我在中国的未来之城发现了什么”。 来自 Byte Review 的 Tom 去了深圳——Canoopsy 的 Isaac 也去了——他们带回了有趣的镜头，以及关于中国如何拥抱科技的独到见解。天哪，这背后的原因非常复杂，远不止科技行业那么简单。但这些视频中确实展示了一些令人着迷的产品。

The Commodore TAC-2. An all-time great joystick controller, resurrected with supposedly identical features and attention to detail, plus a little extra resilience. A lot of retro gamers still use the original model, and the new team at Commodore has done right by the old products so far… this should be great. Commodore TAC-2。 一款史上最伟大的操纵杆控制器，如今以据称完全相同的功能和细节复刻回归，并增加了额外的耐用性。许多复古游戏玩家至今仍在使用原版，而 Commodore 的新团队目前为止对老产品的处理非常到位……这应该会很棒。

Matic Cues. Matic was probably already the best robot vacuum on the planet, and this update might cement its place. Telling it where to go with your voice, or what to clean just by pointing at it? That’s the good robot stuff. Matic Cues。 Matic 可能已经是地球上最好的扫地机器人了，而这次更新可能会巩固它的地位。用语音告诉它去哪里，或者通过指点来告诉它清理什么？这才是机器人该有的样子。

Bingers. How did I miss this last week?! A new media-tracking app from the creator of TV Time, with a smart emphasis on discovery and reviews. There’s something Letterboxd-y about this app, in a great way. 《Bingers》。 我上周怎么错过了这个？！这是一款来自 TV Time 创作者的全新媒体追踪 App，巧妙地侧重于发现和评论。这款 App 有点 Letterboxd 的味道，而且非常棒。

Finalist 4. This app has slowly but surely turned into one of the most robust and clever planner / to-do apps out there. The new update adds a note-taking feature I really like, and while I still find the design a smidge busy, I really like its ability to run your life all on one screen. 《Finalist 4》。 这款 App 已经稳步成长为市面上最强大、最聪明的规划/待办事项 App 之一。新更新增加了一个我非常喜欢的笔记功能，虽然我觉得设计还是稍微有点繁杂，但我真的很喜欢它能在一个屏幕上管理你生活的能力。

Screen share

屏幕共享

I’ve been watching Silo recently — it took me a couple of tries to get into, but once I got to about episode 3, it absolutely hooked me. The show has in turn gotten me into the books they’re based on, by Hugh Howey. I’ve followed Hugh’s work for years, both as an author and as that jacked dude who sometimes appears on my Instagram feed, but I also discovered this week he’s a product guy! 我最近在看《Silo》——我试了几次才看进去，但看到第三集左右时，我彻底被迷住了。这部剧反过来让我开始阅读 Hugh Howey 原著的系列书籍。多年来我一直关注 Hugh 的作品，既关注他作为作家的一面，也关注他作为偶尔出现在我 Instagram 动态里的那个肌肉男的一面，但我这周还发现他竟然是个产品达人！

After almost a decade of work, Hugh just launched a writing tool — the one he’s been building for himself — called Neo. It is very specifically a tool for writing books, and very specifically for writing books the way Hugh Howey writes books, but I really enjoy the app even as a look into someone’s very particular process. I don’t know any author who likes the tools they use to write books; maybe Hugh’s onto something. 经过近十年的打磨，Hugh 刚刚发布了一款写作工具——他一直为自己打造的工具——名为 Neo。这是一款非常专业的写书工具，而且是专门为像 Hugh Howey 那样写书的人设计的。即便只是为了窥探某人非常独特的创作过程，我也很喜欢这个 App。我不认识任何喜欢自己写作工具的作家；也许 Hugh 真的发现了什么门道。

Anyway, I asked Hugh to share his homescreen with us, to get another peek into his process and life. Here it is, plus some info on the apps he uses and why: 总之，我请 Hugh 与我们分享了他的主屏幕，以便再次一窥他的创作过程和生活。以下是内容，以及关于他使用的 App 及其原因的一些信息：

The phone: It’s a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. I feel kinda bad, what with a show on Apple TV right now, but Android is just better. I use a MacBook Air and iPad to help offset the guilt. The wallpape 手机：是三星 Galaxy S24 Ultra。我感觉有点愧疚，毕竟我的剧正在 Apple TV 上播，但 Android 就是更好用。我用 MacBook Air 和 iPad 来抵消这种愧疚感。壁纸……