In a zombie world, the good Samaritan would be toast.
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“BoJack Horseman” is a comedy about living in a long-broken world
The absurdity of “BoJack Horseman” offers an unrelenting, often devastating look into our own humanity.
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Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam’ revisits a barbaric war and asks, what went wrong?
For nearly 20 years, the United States was severely divided by race, and a generational split not seen since the Civil War.
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Talking heads help humanize the PBS documentary ‘Martin Luther’
The two-hour film portrays the “simple monk” Martin Luther as more of a Catholic than he is generally thought to be.
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Yvonne Orji opens up about her God-sent role on HBO’s ‘Insecure’
Orji’s differences with her character felt like a joke at first, but now? “I get it, Lord; I see what you’re doing!”
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Game of Thrones has a serious point to make about Hurricane Harvey and climate change
Climate change is the real battle before us, a battle quite possibly against extinction. It sounds ridiculously fantastic to put it like that; if only we had dragons and a Night King to help us believe.
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‘Will’ explores the genesis of genius, and Shakespeare’s Catholic roots
The story of Shakespeare is eternally appealing, because we want to know what confluence of circumstances, or divine blessing, could produce such a towering figure.
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‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ invites us to the land of the happy fools
‘Kimmy’ takes on everything about life that is hard and makes it all so much bigger and more absurd.
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While “Master of None” looks for love, “Catastrophe” finds it.
In the hyper-curated, beautiful world that Dev lives in, a scene that conveys the touching, ugly stubbornness of marriage seems totally impossible.
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In Netflix’s “The Keepers,” a nun’s unsolved murder tears apart a Catholic community
Sister Cathy Cesnik went missing one night in 1969. The case remains unsolved.