13 posts tagged with television by mediareport.
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Movie: Mr. SOUL!

From 1968 to 1973, the first all-Black public-television variety show SOUL!, guided by sharp gay producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics. This documentary about Haizlip and his show includes clips of live performances from The Last Poets, Al Green, Earth Wind and Fire, literary figures like Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin, politics, dance and more. The series was among the first to provide expanded images of African Americans on television, shifting the gaze from inner-city poverty and violence to the vibrancy of the Black Arts Movement. On HBO. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Feb 21, 2023 - 1 comment

Sort Of: Season 2  Season 2, Ep 0

Bilal Baig and and Fab Filippo's comedy about Sabi, a nonbinary millennial in Toronto, their friends and their Pakistani immigrant family, deepens the characters as it brings Sabi's father back home from Dubai. Hilarious, heartfelt, sex-positive and very queer, with excellent writing and acting and great music. 8 short 20-minute episodes. (Season 1 post, Season 2 trailer.) On HBO.
posted by mediareport on Feb 12, 2023 - 3 comments

Atlanta: Tarrare  Season 3, Ep 10

We finally get an episode wholly centered on Vanessa, and it's the season finale. Van goes native in Paris and takes a few friends on a surreal adventure including the humiliation of Alexander Skarsgård, ritual cannibalism, and a big emotional reveal by the Seine. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on May 21, 2022 - 7 comments

Atlanta: Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga  Season 3, Ep 9

High school student Aaron undergoes a test of his blackness as he tries to get college funding from an unusual source. Another standalone story. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on May 15, 2022 - 4 comments

Atlanta: New Jazz  Season 3, Ep 8

Al tries Nepalese Space Cake and overthinks his fame on a strange trip through Amsterdam. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on May 7, 2022 - 6 comments

Atlanta: Trini 2 De Bone  Season 3, Ep 7

This week: a different kind of ghost story, written by Jordan Temple (writer of episodes 6 and 13 of Abbot Elementary), continues the season's theme of white people cursed by their own racism. A gently unfolding standalone episode about childcare, how children deal with death, and the physical and emotional labor Black people provide to white families. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Apr 30, 2022 - 5 comments

Atlanta: White Fashion  Season 3, Ep 6

Al joins a fashion company's diversity advisory board, Vanessa reconnects with Earn, and Darius searches for jollof as Paper Boi's European tour continues. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Apr 24, 2022 - 6 comments

Atlanta: Cancer Attack  Season 3, Ep 5

Earn and Al try to solve a crime backstage after a Paper Boi show. Darius gets distracted from an eerie adventure and Van is even more cryptic than she's already been. Al has a revealing moment. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Apr 18, 2022 - 6 comments

Atlanta: The Big Payback  Season 3, Ep 4

A standalone speculative fiction episode this week: middle-class white guy Marshall deals with the fallout in his life from new reparations taxes on descendants of former slave-owners. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Apr 8, 2022 - 11 comments

Atlanta: The Old Man and the Tree  Season 3, Ep 3

Things get out of hand at a reclusive South African billionaire's very strange party. Darius gets some white allies, Vanessa goes rogue, Paper Boi encounters a tree and Earn levels up his management skills. Bonus: Donald Glover interviews himself and compares the show to a fine meal at a farm-to-table restaurant and says, "Even if you don’t like it, you can’t say it’s not high quality. The quality is undeniable."
posted by mediareport on Apr 7, 2022 - 7 comments

Atlanta: Sinterklaas Is Coming To Town  Season 3, Ep 2

Episode 2 rejoins Earn, Paperboy and Darius on tour in Amsterdam, where they get a surprise visitor and have a variety of encounters with the horrors of Dutch jail, a strange group of mourners and a whole lot of Zwarte Piet.
posted by mediareport on Mar 31, 2022 - 3 comments

Atlanta: Three Slaps  Season 3, Ep 1

Donald Glover's comedy/horror/drama show Atlanta is back with 2 new episodes dropped this week (four years after the season 2 finale). The premiere half-hour again defies expectations to introduce a new young protagonist and tell his increasingly intense story.
posted by mediareport on Mar 31, 2022 - 4 comments

One Mississippi: Tig Notaro's new Amazon Prime series  Season 1, Ep 0

Tig Notaro's new series One Mississippi is a fictional "traumedy" based on events in Notaro's life, and follows her as she returns to her hometown after a double mastectomy and the sudden death of her mother. Released September 9th, the first season tells a complete story in six 30-minute episodes, with a full narrative arc that includes both dramatic and comedic high points. This post is for discussion of the entire 3-hour story, so spoilers within. (Most important spoiler: it's great.) [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Sep 13, 2016 - 6 comments

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