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‘Trump: An American Dream’ TV series is a wakeup call
October 8, 2020Trump: An American Dream is a wakeup call, a warning against his kind of predatory capitalism and the political system that foisted this nightmare on our country.
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‘Green Frontier’ and ‘Wild District’: Bolivarian vs. Bolsonarian revolution
August 19, 2020Two series from Colombia, Green Frontier and Wild District, both Netflix originals and both done by the same production house, Dynamo, stake out the left and right of Colombian politics.
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‘Space Force’: What could have been ‘Dr. Strangelove’ is instead ‘McHale’s Navy’
June 30, 2020Netflix’s Space Force is tepid, often unfunny, not skewering or lambasting but often romanticizing of what the U.S. is doing in space.
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Serial TV and indignities of class: ‘Snowpiercer,’ ‘Normal People,’ ‘Little Fires Everywhere’
June 2, 2020One of the effects of the coronavirus crisis is the accentuation of already exacerbated class differences.
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Money for nothing and gold for free on Netflix and Spanish TV
May 27, 2020Netflix has bet heavily on Spanish film and television, most likely after the European and global success of Money Heist, having set up their European headquarters in Tres Cantos, near Madrid.
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