The Underground Railroad, Couples Therapy, and Taika/Rita/Tessa - a podcast by Criticism Is Dead

from 2021-06-01T09:00

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It's a long — but good, if we may say so ourselves — one this week! We discuss The Underground Railroad, an alt-history epic about the rotten foundation of this country, and Couples Therapy, a docuseries about excavating the past to address troubles of the present.


02:50 The Underground Railroad, streaming on Amazon Prime Video, is one of the best works of television/cinema in recent memory.


28:55 Couples Therapy, available on Showtime (and with some episodes on YouTube), is so voyeuristically fascinating and revealing, it's hard to stop watching.


52:32 Plus, culture notes about that threesome — celeb culture isn't dead!


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