The shortest month of the year is getting a fresh round of new content on Hulu, including Oscar winner "The Shape of Water," and television hit "Married at First Sight."
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Nearly 30 years after cult favorite Fishing With John, musician and character actor John Lurie returns to TV with an HBO half-hour loosely focused on his tertiary career as an artist.
Travel shows are an inherently outward-facing genre, and if you re like me, you spent a lot of the early days of quarantine looking to things like
House Hunters International or any of a half-dozen food-centric Netflix shows for an escape from the couch.
Recent months, though, have seen a rise in shows that use travel tropes to explore something more insular. Shows like HBO s
Pretend It s a Cityare New York City travelogues of sorts, but they re more inward-looking character studies of two people and their longtime home. The Anthony Bourdain model is one of leaving your comfort zone and seeking out the universal through the exotic. These shows, two of my recent favorites, are about the psychology of embracing and recontextualizing the familiar.