Why 'Painting with John,' as in Lurie, is HBO at its best
Every once in a while HBO will slip something strange into the lineup of shows on which it stakes its fortune — your “Game of Thrones,” your “Undoing.” Something arty for art’s sake, something odd for oddity’s sake, like Terence Nance’s “Random Acts of Flyness” or “How To with John Wilson.” They may not bring in large audiences, or dominate the chatter on social media, or prompt multiple stories in the press, but for my money, these unpredictable exceptions represent the channel at its most worthwhile. Such is John Lurie’s “Painting With John,” an idiosyncratic b...
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