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Welcome back to a new school year. Janine's got plans. Ava's got a new outlook. We get to meet some of the people from the school district.
posted by jessamyn on Feb 8, 2024 - 9 comments

Abbott Elementary's first season has finished. (ABC renewed it for a second season.) Talk about all 13 episodes here, from Pilot to Zoo Balloon. [more inside]
posted by Monochrome on Apr 21, 2022 - 22 comments

Sent to live with his estranged father for the summer, a rebellious teen finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of Black cowboys. [more inside]
posted by the webmistress on Apr 23, 2021 - 1 comment

Queer Eye is back on Netflix for Season 5 and this time around, the Fab Five are taking over Philadelphia and making over 10 new people. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jun 5, 2020 - 15 comments

This week, our friends Tanya Ballard Brown and Gene Demby join us to talk about Fox's hit show Empire and to follow up on a recent public discussion of the need for diverse radio voices. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Feb 6, 2015 - 16 comments

When a man with AIDS is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Nov 28, 2014 - 13 comments

A morning coffee run goes disastrously wrong for one hapless Philadelphia PD policeman. Walter and the rest of the team painstakingly reconstruct Officer Explodey before Walter does that thing with the fruit again meaning Astrid has to clean up the lab. Again. Gene is not impressed. Viewers who have Problems with Needle Scenes are again ruthlessly overlooked before Peter and Olivia fly off to Baghdad, because why not? Olivia has an issue with mint tea.
posted by Sonny Jim on Sep 22, 2014 - 3 comments