John Oliver spends much of his time on the Last Week Tonight discussing the inequalities currently present in American systems. But on Sunday night — with the country still reeling from the killing of George Floyd — he devoted an entire segment to U.S. history and how whitewashed the teaching …
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The title character of HBO‘s My Brilliant Friend is Lila Cerullo, a shoemaker’s daughter in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples in the Fifties. Defying all odds of both nature and nurture, she is a prodigy who masters whatever task she sets her mind to, usually without any …
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At first glance, Random Acts of Flyness might sound like something you’ve seen before: a block of programming where a stable of actors run through sketches, intercut with musical performances and acerbic takes on the issues of the day. But the new HBO series from Terence Nance isn’t like anything …
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Inside Farmshop, an overcrowded, overloud Santa Monica, California, artisanal-type-food joint, the 20-year-old Bill Hader is giving the 39-year-old Bill Hader a pretty good goddamn dressing down. “Fucking loser,” the younger spits at one point. But does grown-up Bill take umbrage? Does he rail at his interior monologue, trying to scare …
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