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Now showing — The Suburbs · 5 works

  • The Americans Television · 2010s

    Soviet spies pose as an American suburban couple. Marriage and espionage as dual identity.

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  • The Wire Television · 2000s

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

    PowerSurveillanceNature
  • My So-Called Life Television · 1990s

    My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. It aired on ABC from August 25, 1994, to January 26, 1995. Set at the fictional Liberty High School in a fictional suburb near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called Three Rivers, i...

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  • The Sopranos Television · 1990s

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

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  • Pure Heroine Music · 2010s

    Royals and the sound of suburban New Zealand. A teenager redefines pop minimalism.

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