Los Espookys
Quirky, spooky, and defiantly original, Peabody honors season two of this stand-out comedy. Created and written by Julio Torres, Ana Fabrega, and Fred Armisen, this half-hour American series pays homage…
Mo
The precarity of being an asylum-seeking refugee in the United States may not immediately feel like fodder for a half-hour streaming comedy. And yet Mo, starring and co-created by Mo…
We’re Here
Whenever Shangela, Bob the Drag Queen, and Eureka O’Hara alight on any given town during any one episode of HBO’s docuseries We’re Here, their purpose is clear: all three queens…
Our Flag Means Death
This is, indeed, a historical queer pirate rom-com. The series follows Stede Bonnet, a Barbadian aristocrat played by Rhys Darby, as he leaves his life behind to become a pirate,…
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s opens with a violent and haunting piece of family lore. In the 1970s, Connie Walker’s father, then a member of Royal Canadian Mounted Police, pulled over…
The Divided Dial
Despite constant predictions of its eventual demise, broadcast radio remains one of the most powerful media channels in the United States, if not the world. Grounded in this knowledge, “The…
This American Life: The Pink House at the Center of the World
On the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, This American Life had exclusive access inside the clinic at the center of the legal case, Mississippi’s last abortion clinic,…
Life is Strange: True Colors
Life is Strange: True Colors centers on the story of a 21-year-old bisexual Asian American woman who has spent the last eight years in foster care, a radical departure from…
Issa Rae
Issa Rae represents a generation of storytellers who used the internet to cultivate their craft in service of community. Starting her career on social media, Rae created, wrote, produced, and…
