This should have been David Harbour’s biggest year yet. In the spring, a few weeks after turning 50, the American actor took a leading role in Thunderbolts, a movie touted as ushering in the next generation of Marvel superheroes. This month, he’ll star in the final chapter of Stranger Things, one of Netflix’s most popular series of all time and the show that changed his life. But right now, everyone is talking about Harbour for all the wrong reasons.
In October, Harbour’s estranged wife Lily Allen released West End Girl, a break-up album for the ages that painstakingly, almost forensically dissected the disintegration of their open marriage over the course of 14 tracks, written in a 10-day burst of creativity and raw emotion. And the record just so happened to debut at the very same time the Stranger Things promotional juggernaut was getting into gear.
