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Crystal Moselle is the creator and director of “Betty,” a show about female skateboarders in New York City. Its second season begins June 11 on HBO and it is even better than the first, which made for one of the best shows of 2020 if my own top 10 is anything to go by.
A show about beauty as well as friendship, community, gender, power, empowerment and the correctable dopiness of dudes “Betty” is beautiful itself. (You could turn down the sound and still be moved by the skating, by the faces.) It isn’t long on plot, but a lot of things happen across each six-episode season without seeming busy or rushed or left by the wayside. It’s involving without being expressly dramatic, exciting without telling you to be excited a fly-on-the-wall fiction, built on the experiences of a from-the-streets cast one can no longer call nonprofessional.