Tag: Anna Deavere Smith
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The Boroughs, sci-fi fun with the old folks
The Boroughs has a marvelous cast of players, almost all over 60. I love it for that reason alone. It’s about a remote retirement village stuck out in the middle of the New Mexico desert where strange things happen in the night. (I’d like to say ‘stranger things’ happen in the night, because this is…
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Extrapolations review: a series of dire warnings ignored
Extrapolations is a series of interrelated stories meant to illustrate where we are headed if something isn’t done about all the carbon pouring into the atmosphere. It’s a huge, ambitious attempt to warn us, show us, teach us, that we need to change what we’re doing.
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Inventing Anna, or the American obsession with money and power
Inventing Anna, a Netflix mini-series about the rise and fall of a fake socialite from creator Shonda Rhimes, is fascinating and compelling television. I took it as a parable about the rot at the heart of the American psyche. It’s a classic tale of good and evil, truth and lies, reality and illusion.
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Brain Dump: Rise, For the People, and Station 19
It’s a brain dump day. I plan to empty my head completely of thoughts about Rise, For the People and Station 19.
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Brain Dump: Collateral, Rise, For the People
Welcome to the scattered thoughts swirling around on the way out of my head in what I charmingly call a brain dump. This edition will talk about Collateral, Rise, and For the People.
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6 Observations on 7 Years with Nurse Jackie
Nurse Jackie ended in 2015 after 7 seasons. This half-hour show on Showtime was widely considered on of the best shows on television, and for good reason. At a half hour, it may have been considered a comedy. In my mind, it was a serious drama with a bit of comedy included. Because I don’t…