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Why We Can't Stop Bingeing Old Shows During The Pandemic

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to media psychologist Pamela Rutledge about how our brains are responding to the pandemic and driving our TV viewing choices. Hint: We're craving predicability.

August 16, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
<em>Halt! Cthulhu goes there? (L to R):</em>Uncle George (Courtney B. Vance), Atticus (Jonathan Majors) and Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) in HBO's <em>Lovecraft Country.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

'Lovecraft Country': Facing Monsters —And A Monstrous History

HBO's new dark fantasy series serves up satisfyingly pulpy thrills even as it examines the enduring legacy of slavery through a prism of science-fiction and horror.

August 16, 2020
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  • Glen Weldon
GPB News NPR

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  • Television

Jonathan Majors Discusses His Role In HBO's New 'Lovecraft Country'

In a new HBO series, a Black man travels across 1950s Jim Crow America, facing the racist terrors that seem more out of H.P. Lovecraft's fiction. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to actor Jonathan Majors.

August 15, 2020
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  • TV Reviews

HBO's 'Lovecraft Country' Puts A Bold New Spin On The Works Of A Horror Legend

A new 10-part drama upends the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, presenting a narrative in which the heroes are Black, the setting is the racially divided 1950s, and each episode seems to have its own tone.

August 14, 2020
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  • David Bianculli
GPB News NPR

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  • TV Reviews

HBO's 'Lovecraft Country' Brings Viewers To A World Of Monsters, Magic and Racism

The new HBO Series Lovecraft Country mixes the real horrors of 1950's Jim Crow America with the imaginary horrors of author H.P Lovecraft.

August 14, 2020
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  • Eric Deggans
GPB News NPR

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  • Television

Emmy-Nominated 'Watchmen' Writer Explores Generational Trauma And Racism

The HBO show uses sci-fi and superheroes to examine American racism. Cord Jefferson wrote the episode in which the main character goes back in time and to relive the trauma of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.

August 13, 2020
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  • Terry Gross
GPB News NPR

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  • Business

Reality Show Host Wants To Help Bars Survive COVID-19

Bar Rescue host Jon Taffer is probably best known for telling owners what's wrong with their bars. Now, he wants to help them survive the pandemic.

August 13, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
Some Netflix users will be able to watch shows at slower and faster speeds. It's a helpful move for blind and deaf users, advocates say.

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Netflix Is Letting Some People Speed Up Playback. That's A Big Deal For Blind Fans

People who are blind spend a lot of time listening to words. So much that they often prefer to listen at faster speeds, including for TV shows.

August 12, 2020
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  • James Doubek
GPB News NPR

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  • TV Reviews

'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Sketches Out Life In The Bottom Berths Of The Starship

A new CBS All Access cartoon focuses on the ensigns who populate the ship's lower decks — and are charged with mostly menial tasks, like fetching drinks or repairing food replicators.

August 11, 2020
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  • David Bianculli
Top to bottom: screenshots from trailers for shows being binge-watched around the world: <em>The Bad Kids </em>in China, <em>Pasión de Gavilanes </em>in Colombia, and <em>Tehran</em> in Israel.

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  • Television

A Global Guide To Binge-worthy TV For The Pandemic

Lost children! Angry lovers! Time travel! A show referred to as 'The Muslim Game Of Thrones" We asked reporters to tell us about the shows that people are obsessing around the world.

August 10, 2020
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  • NPR Staff
GPB News NPR

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  • Technology

Advocates For Deaf And Blind Laud Netflix's New Playback Features

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Everette Bacon, a board member with the National Federation of the Blind, about Netflix's new playback features, which he says will improve accessibility.

August 08, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
Tim Minchin plays Lucky in the new series <em>Upright.</em>

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  • Television

Tim Minchin Hauls A Piano Across Australia In 'Upright'

Singer, songwriter, and satirist Tim Minchin's new series opens with a bang: A frazzled man is driving an upright piano across the bare Australian landscape when he collides with a mouthy teenager.

August 08, 2020
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  • Scott Simon
Scientists, artists, thinkers, activists and journalists gather for meals and conservation in an episode of <em>Pan y Circo</em>, hosted by Diego Luna (center).

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  • Television

Diego Luna Says Shared Meals On 'Pan Y Circo' Transformed Cast And Crew Alike

Scientists, artists, thinkers, activists and journalists gather for meals and conservation in the new Amazon Prime show. "We have to sit at the table," says host Diego Luna.

August 07, 2020
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  • Rachel Martin,
  • Simone Popperl,
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L to R: Ensigns Tendi (voiced by Noel Wells), Mariner (voiced by Tawny Newsome) and Boimler (voiced by Jack Quaid) do the grunt work on <em>Star Trek: Lower Decks</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

With 'Star Trek: Lower Decks,' A Venerable Franchise Loosens Up

The animated series spoofs Trek with in-jokes and easter eggs and even if the gags aren't yet firing on all nacelles, the premise — Starfleet's D-listers — holds promise.

August 06, 2020
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  • Glen Weldon
Seth Rogen stars alongside ... well, Seth Rogen, in the HBO Max movie <em>An American Pickle</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

Seth Rogen Finds Himself (Twice) In 'An American Pickle'

In a new film streaming on HBO Max, Rogen plays both a Polish immigrant who wakes up 100 years after falling into a pickle barrel and the great-grandson into whose modern life he emerges.

August 04, 2020
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  • Linda Holmes
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