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High Fidelity
2020
A fan of music, pop culture and Top Five lists runs a local record store in her hometown. An adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel "High Fidelity".
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One Mississippi
2015
This semi-autobiographical dark comedy starring Tig Notaro follows her as she returns to her hometown after the sudden death of her mother. Still reeling from her own declining health problems, Tig struggles to find her footing with the loss of the one person in her life who understood her. All while dealing with her clingy girlfriend and her dysfunctional family.
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The White Lotus
2021
Set in a tropical resort, it follows the exploits of various guests and employees over the span of a week.
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Crashing
2017
A New York comic is forced to make a new start for himself after his wife leaves him.
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Friends from College
2017
A group of friends from Harvard are facing down their forties. With interwoven and oftentimes complicated relationships with one another. "Friends from College" is a comedic exploration of old friendships, former romantic entanglements and balancing adult life with nostalgia for the past.
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You're the Worst
2014
Centers on two toxic, self-destructive people who fall in love and attempt a relationship.
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The Politician
2019
Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), from Santa Barbara, California, is a wealthy student who has wanted to be the President of the United States since he was seven years old. But first he had to get through the most dangerous political hurdle of all: Saint Sebastian High School. In order to be the President of the Student Body, study at Harvard and continue on his path to extraordinary success, Payton has to outsmart his ruthless classmates without sacrificing his moral and carefully crafted image. Ryan Murphy's 'The Politician' is full of comedy and clever satire which is giving us a rare insight into how to be a politician.
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Enlightened
2011
A self-destructive woman who has a spiritual awakening becomes determined to live an enlightened life, creating havoc at home and work.
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Fleabag
2016
A dry-witted woman, known only as Fleabag, has no filter as she navigates life and love in London while trying to cope with tragedy. The angry, grief-riddled woman tries to heal while rejecting anyone who tries to help her, but Fleabag continues to keep up her bravado through it all. Comic actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge stars as the titular character on the series, which is based on Waller-Bridge's 2013 one-woman show of the same name.
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Flaked
2016
A recovering alcoholic faces reality after a life changing accident in Venice Beach, California.
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Shrill
2019
A woman seeks out ways to change her life without changing her body.
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Better Things
2016
An actress raises her three daughters while juggling the pressures of working in Hollywood and being a single parent.
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Casual
2015
A comedy series about a bachelor brother and his newly divorced sister living under one roof again. Together, they coach each other through the crazy world of dating while raising her teenage daughter.
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Girls
2012
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.
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Somebody Somewhere
2022
Sam is a true Kansan on the surface, but, beneath it all, struggles to fit the hometown mould. Grappling with loss and acceptance, she discovers herself and a community of outsiders who don't fit in but don't give up.
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Insecure
2016
Unpacked stories of the black female experience from the perspective of two female protagonists, Issa and Molly, who have been best friends since their college days at Stanford. Both in their late 20s, they navigate career and relationship experiences while living in their hometown, Los Angeles, California. They share a close bond, and throughout the show they deal with internal struggles with themselves, their friendship, and the African-American community. Issa works at a non-profit that benefits middle-school-aged students of color, "We Got Y'all." She struggles to put the spark back into her relationship with her long-term boyfriend Lawrence, who has been slacking in their relationship since his start-up company failed. Molly is a successful corporate attorney who has career success but difficulty with dating men. The half-hour series explores social and racial issues that relate to the contemporary black experience.
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Transparent
2014
Mort has a secret that he really wants to tell his three adult children, who are so self-absorbed they don't see that something has changed for divorced, girlfriendless dad. Even when he invites them to dinner en masse to share his news, somehow, the conversation becomes about them. The secret unfolds, though, when he comes home and sees his married daughter getting intimate with her ex. Now, he knows her secret; she learns his; and the dysfunctional family finds one secret after another being exposed.
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Dear White People
2017
At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a group of black students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.
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