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The Show Must Go Off: Live at the House of Blues
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Madlib Medicine Show: The Brick
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and South Asia.
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The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into books through power and urban isolation.

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Lost
Carries a strong pull into books through power and urban isolation.
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The Sellout
2010s
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's *The Sellout* showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relatio...
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Natsume's Book of Friends
2000s
Blessed with eyes that are able to perceive the otherwise invisible youkai, Takashi Natsume hides his ability from his newfound family and friends to protect everyone's peaceful daily life. Nonetheless, Natsume never fails to show the same kindness to the benevolent youkai and happily returns their names by using th...
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The Truman Show
1990s
A man discovers his entire life is a television show. Reality, freedom, and media critique.
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The Kingdom
1990s
Riget is a Danish absurdist supernatural horror miniseries trilogy created by Lars von Trier and Tómas Gislason. Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, each episode of the show follows the hospital's eccentric staff and patients as they encounter bizarre and sometimes supernatural phenomena. T...
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Film 1960s
Psycho
A secretary on the run checks into the Bates Motel. The shower scene that changed cinema.

Television 1990s
Oz
Life inside a maximum-security prison. The show that proved HBO could do prestige drama.
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Music 2010s
Madlib Medicine Show: The Brick
Film 1950s
The Prince and the Showgirl
The Prince and the Showgirl is a 1957 film from United Kingdom, associated with Laurence Olivier. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

Television 2000s
Lost
Plane crash survivors on a mysterious island. The show that made appointment TV return.
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Music 2000s
The Show Must Go Off: Live at the House of Blues