Who Framed Roger Rabbit: portrait of racial segregation No one has quite worked out what the munchkins are supposed to be. The fraudulent Wizard is a proxy for their profiteering eastern banker nemeses, while Dorothy is the American public, blindly following a false path to wealth and riches (Emerald City) and the Tin Man embodying impoverished industrial workers. The Yellow Brick Road represents the gold standard monetary system, which poor midwestern farmers (represented by the Scarecrow) blamed for turn-of-the-20th century deflation that kept the cost of their loans high. MGM’s children’s classic may have hit cinemas in 1939, but some analyses put its roots in an even earlier era. The Wizard of Oz: parable for 1890s America By the end of the film it has been firmly established, with the discovery that sisterly love trumps traditional romance every time, that orange is not the only fruit. Pretend this recommendation came to you via a handwritten note decorated with hearts and stars.As proponents of the Twitter hashtag #GiveElsaagirlfriend have noted, the princess of Arendelle spends most of the Disney fantasy desperately trying to keep a secret she fears will make her a pariah, before finally accepting her true identity in an icy whirl of fearless abandon and kick-ass showtunes. I’m on my second viewing of the final batch of episodes, but if you have yet to watch the whole series, there are 25 half-hour episodes at your disposal.
Starring Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle as 13-year-old BFFs in 2000, the show brilliantly captures the angst, humiliation and naïveté of middle-schoolers who don’t quite fit in, often in ways that will transport you back to the halls of your own seventh grade. Then, just as the second half of its sophomore season arrived, Hulu announced that this batch of episodes would be the last of the series. Two decades and some change later (oh, my God, writing that hurt my soul), shooting delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forced the second season of “PEN15” - which reminds me of those preteen days in excruciating but splendid ways - to be split into two halves. Not since the closing moments of the Season 1 finale of “Dawson’s Creek” - you know, when Dawson and Joey finally kissed - have I felt the truly unbearable preteen anguish of having to wait an eternity for new episodes of my favorite show.
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Pat Show” go is everyone’s wry determination to make the best out of a situation by learning when “It is what it is” is code for “Good enough.” - Dawn M. You’ll get that good laugh you’ve needed during this disconcerting year, but what really makes “The Ms. Bernard Calloway is a dad who’s not so clueless and the children (Brittany Inge, Vince Swann, Theodore Barnes and Briyana Guadalupe) know to be heard only when they have to be. Pat is the star of the show - and, soon, a Netflix comedy special - and opens each episode with a microphone in hand, there’s enough shine to go around: Tami Roman (“The Real World”) is the blunt live-in sister who always has a trick to treat the audience J. She’s a mother trying to adjust to suburban ways and a comedian trying to get her shine on far from the lights of the big city (fodder for an episode starring a “Family Matters” alum). Williams plays a version of herself as Pat, a felon who has moved with her family from Atlanta to the less racially diverse Plainfield, Ind., to press restart. Pat, your head will snap the moment she releases the first f-bomb in “ The Ms. If you’re not familiar with comic Patricia Williams, a.k.a. Huzzah! - Meredith Blake The Mighty Underdogs (Discovery+)
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Season 1 ended with Catherine staging a coup against Peter that - spoiler alert - will not end too well for him, but I’m curious to see how the series will handle this historical inevitability. The series is clearly not interested in sticking to the facts, but it captures something often overlooked when it comes the history of European royals: Those people were nuts. I gobbled up Season 1 during Pandemic 1.0 and fell in love with the whole thing, particularly the performances by Elle Fanning, who believably transforms from a wide-eyed princess into a cunning empress, and Nicholas Hoult as her cretinous yet strangely likable husband, Peter III. That’s why I plan to catch up on “The Great,” Hulu’s aggressively anachronistic series about the young Catherine the Great. Better yet if it’s also irreverent and wickedly funny. Over the holidays, there’s nothing I enjoy more than hunkering down and watching a show with vast historical sweep, elaborate costumes, lots of sumptuous scenery and a wintry landscape.