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Now showing — The Mysterious Affair at Styles · 5 works

  • Lost Television · 2000s

    Plane crash survivors on a mysterious island. The show that made appointment TV return.

    PowerMigrationSurveillance
  • The Wire Television · 2000s

    Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.

    PowerSurveillanceNature
  • Mononoke Anime · 2000s

    The "Medicine Seller" is a deadly and mysterious master of the occult who travels across feudal Japan in search of malevolent spirits called "mononoke" to slay. When he locates one of these spirits, he cannot simply kill it; he must first learn its Form, its Truth, and its Reason in order to wield the mighty Exorcis...

    FolkloreIdentitySurveillance
  • Princess Tutu Anime · 2000s

    In a fairy tale come to life, the clumsy, sweet, and gentle Ahiru seems like an unlikely protagonist. In reality, Ahiru is just as magical as the talking cats and crocodiles that inhabit her town—for Ahiru really is a duck! Transformed by the mysterious Drosselmeyer into a human girl, Ahiru soon learns the reason fo...

    FolkloreIdentitySurveillance
  • The Sopranos Television · 1990s

    A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
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  • The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Music
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