Television

'Gentefied': A Netflix Series Set East Of Downtown Los Angeles

4:26pm February 21, 2020

The new Netflix show Gentefied is about a Latino family in the LA neighborhood of Boyle Heights. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with first-time creators Linda Yvette Chávez and Marvin Lemus about the show.

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Yes, Al Pacino (seen here with Logan Lerman) is in Hunters, Amazon's new show about a band of Nazi hunters in the 1970s, but he's not the most interesting thing about it.

Arts

Flashy, Splashy 'Hunters' Is More Fun Than It Should Be

4:26pm February 21, 2020

by Eric Deggans

Al Pacino is the marquee attraction in Hunters, Amazon's new show about Nazi hunters in the 1970s — but the story is splashy and electric enough that he's not the most interesting thing in it.

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Back For Season 5, 'Better Call Saul' Keeps The Fun And Narrative Going

1:13pm February 21, 2020

by David Bianculli

Fans of Breaking Bad will love some of the faces that show up this season in Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould's prequel/sequel series. It's already clear this show will be one of the year's best.

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'Hunters,' A New Amazon Prime Video Series Debuts On Friday

6:39am February 21, 2020

It's New York City, 1977, and a team of Nazi hunters is tracking high-ranking Nazi officials conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The new Amazon series Hunters stars Al Pacino.

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Review: Season 5 Begins Friday For 'Better Call Saul'

6:10am February 21, 2020

by Eric Deggans

The hit AMC show Better Caul Saul returns for another season. The Breaking Bad prequel is edging closer to the time when Saul became the fixer for Walter White's meth operation.

Claire Danes was a teenager when she landed a starring role on the series My So-Called Life, about a girl in high school dealing with anxieties about boys, friends, school and parents.

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Claire Danes Reflects 'With Gratitude' On Her Life-Changing 'Homeland' Tenure

6:52pm February 20, 2020

by Terry Gross

As her Showtime series draws to an end, Danes talks about playing CIA agent Carrie Mathison and what it was like navigating adolescence while starring in My So-Called Life.

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Arts

A Vigilante Group Seeks Revenge On Nazis In Amazon's Garish 'Hunters'

1:25pm February 19, 2020

by John Powers

A jaunty new 10-part series plays as an amped-up comic book, blending an old-school revenge saga with a grim history lesson. Hunters exhibits a desire to be inventive that doesn't always pay off.

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John Trumbull's painting The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Peter Salem is thought to be the figure in the lower right.

Arts

'Black Patriots' Were Heroes Of The Revolution — But Not The History Books

5:34pm February 16, 2020

by Leila Fadel

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the executive producer of a new documentary focusing on the lives of black Americans on both sides of the Revolutionary War, whose stories aren't often told.

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Podcaster Leon Neyfakh leads you through some of Watergate's lesser-known twists and turns on the EPIX series Slow Burn.

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'Slow Burn' Captures The Drip-Drip-Drip Of Watergate

9:00am February 16, 2020

by Glen Weldon

By focusing on figures who "played roles in the story that are larger than history remembers" this gripping adaptation of a hit podcast reminds us how slowly the Watergate scandal unfolded.

A clerk pick an item for a customer order at the Amazon Prime warehouse in New York. Amazon Empire director James Jacoby describes the pace of work within the company's warehouses as "incredibly grueling."

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Filmmaker Tracks Bezos' 'Rise And Reign' And How Amazon Became 'Inescapable'

11:30am February 14, 2020

by Terry Gross

Director James Jacoby catalogs the reach of the tech giant in his new PBS Frontline documentary, Amazon Empire. "So much power is pooled into the hands of one company and one man," he says.

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