The show attempts to juggle a number of different issues and themes, but chief among them is a commitment to being a meditation on modern racial animus in the United States, and it does not shy away from controversial topics and ideas.
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As a 90s kid, I loved Disney’s ‘So Weird’ for its use of faith, sacrifice and the paranormal. As an adult, I still do.
As a kid, my favorite show was about death. Strangest of all, I watched it on the Disney Channel.
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We’re all desperate for hope. Ted Lasso is here to deliver it.
It is the perfect time to sink into the couch and run through the most hopeful show on television: “Ted Lasso.”
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Review: ‘City So Real’ explores Chicago, a great American city in need of redemption
For true Chicagoans, theirs is the greatest American city, and also the one most in need of change.
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From slavery to civil rights, ‘The Black Church’ on PBS tells an essential American story
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a thought-provoking journey through American history using the Black church as an entry point and a lens for critical examination.
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Your guide to pro-life films and TV shows on Netflix and Amazon
You do not have to look hard to find movies and television shows that celebrate the (sometimes unexpected) gift of life.
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HBO’s Tiger Woods documentary explores the fine line between victim and villain
HBO’s ‘Tiger’ shows that Tiger Woods’s development as a human being came second to his golf.
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Netflix’s ‘Bridgerton’ is a feminist disaster. But it (almost) redeems itself.
Welcome to a world where soft porn meets Lisa Frank meets… not Jane Austen, but someone who has definitely heard of Jane Austen.
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In ‘The Crown,’ the royal family is miserable. What would St. Ignatius say about duty, freedom and the monarchy?
James Martin, S.J., and Kerry Weber on ‘The Crown’: What does it mean to uphold one’s duty? What does it mean to be free?
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In a year when we couldn’t go anywhere, everything became ‘TV.’ Here is the best of it.
In 2020 the best TV was whatever got you through the night.