Tag: TV
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How “This Fool” Became the Summer’s Best Comedy | The New Yorker
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How “This Fool” Became the Summer’s Best Comedy The Hulu series tackles depression, the carceral state, and racial tension in L.A. It’s also laugh-out-loud funny. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/how-this-fool-became-the-summers-best-comedy Luis is impulsive, Napoleonic, and stuck in the values he held when he entered prison; Julio is self-important, neurotic, and paralyzed by choice even in…
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Comic High Jinks and Repressed Despair in Netflix’s “Beef” | The New Yorker
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Comic High Jinks and Repressed Despair in Netflix’s “Beef” The drama, starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, is a study of male loneliness—a familiar theme in prestige TV that finds renewed urgency in an Asian American context. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/17/beef-tv-review-netflix Around the season’s halfway point, I began excitedly telling friends that I’d never…
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Detroiters – TV Series | Comedy Central US
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Detroiters | Comedy Central Get to know Sam and Tim as they do everything possible to make their Chicago ad agency the best in the game. via Comedy Central: https://www.cc.com/shows/detroiters Best friends Sam and Tim, the proud owners of an ad company in Detroit, want to become the city’s biggest ad agency within a decade,…
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Trump: An American Dream
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Watch Trump: An American Dream | Netflix Official Site Friends, associates and critics reveal the truly American story of Donald Trump, the brash businessman who defied the odds to become U.S. president. Link: https://www.netflix.com/title/80206395
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November Scoreboard
Episode 10 – No FoPo, Fight the Blob feat. @dwdavison9318 (5/15/16) In episode 10, we’re joined by Derek Davison (@dwdavison9318)who voxsplains to us what the Iran nuclear deal is and breaks down a juicy New York Times Magazine profile of White House literary savage B via SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-10-no-fopo-fight-the-blob-feat-dwdavison9318-51516#t=53:10 I don’t think that in my lifetime…
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December 7, 1942
Link: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_secret_cost_of_chinese_buffets_part_1_20161102 Sam stood out from the start. “Born on third base,” as he says, not because his family had money but because he considers intellect, not class, to be the new driver in society.
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Crashing, Season 1
Crashing (TV Series 2017–2019) – IMDb Crashing: Created by Pete Holmes. With Pete Holmes, George Basil, Jamie Lee, Artie Lange. A New York comic is forced to make a new start for himself after his wife leaves him. via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5037914/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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Nathan For You – season 4 finale
Nathan For You | Comedy Central No idea is too daring for Nathan Fielder as he thinks outside the box to help small business owners make it in a competitive world. via Comedy Central: http://www.cc.com/shows/nathan-for-you
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 1
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV Series 2017– ) – IMDb The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino. With Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen, Marin Hinkle. After her husband leaves her, young mother of two Miriam “Midge” Maisel discovers that she has a talent for stand-up comedy. Co via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5788792/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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Splatty Tomato – South Park s21e10
South Park – Splatty Tomato | South Park Studios US The children of South Park claim to have seen Mr. Garrison lurking around town and they’re frightened. The town comes together to make the President go away. via South Park United States: http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s21e10-splatty-tomato
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Misc Media: November 2017
What Does This Button Do? New York Times Bestseller “Illuminating and very entertaining…a compelling read about someone who is much more than just the guy who sin… Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34091173-what-does-this-button-do?ac=1&from_search=true We took the children over to Father’s house so they could be tended by his many childless wives.
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Back Problems
I’ve had some back problems, which I’m treating with pills. Tim Heidecker to a woman he’s met on their first date in episode 2 of Beef House
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Evil Genius
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The Leftovers Season Two
Cranked through season two with the help of wikipedia’s episode guide. This is the best line from the breakdown of the season finale: He’s plunged back into the land of the non-living, where he is told by a familiar face that he must sing karaoke to get back home, which he hesitantly does. Today’s longform…