Tag: Leslie Uggams
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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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American Fiction: It’s a white people problem
American Fiction is a satire dealing with how white people believe Black people should be portrayed as ghettoized, badly spoken, violent and dangerous. It had some good moments and points to make, but it was all rendered into a tropey slumber party trick by the bad ending.
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Fallout, apocalyptic sci-fi based on a popular game
Fallout sets up a world a couple of hundred years in the future. Pods of people have been living underground in fallout shelters (or vaults) since an all out war turned earth into a nuclear desert. The series sets up a situation where a woman from Vault 33 goes topside to the wasteland to rescue…
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Nanny: drama with a horror chaser
Nanny stars Anna Diop as the nanny to a New York City family. The nanny, Aisha, is an immigrant from Senegal who wants to make enough money to bring her young son to the United States with her.