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What to watch on Crave in May 2021
Including Tenet, RuPaul s Drag Race Down Under and new seasons of In Treatment and The Girlfriend Experience By Norman Wilner, Glenn Sumi and Kevin Ritchie
Apr 30, 2021
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NOW critics pick the best titles coming to Canadian streaming platform Crave in May 2021, including Tenet, RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, season four of In Treatment and Ziwe Fumudoh’s new sketch show.
What we can’t wait to watch
In Treatment (season 4)
If ever there were a TV series tailor-made for filming (and watching) during a pandemic, it’s this one. Small casts, intimate scripts, no crowd scenes. Plus, mental illness, anxiety and depression are top of mind for many of us. The original American-made series (it was based on an Israeli property), starring Gabrielle Byrne as a therapist whose own life was coming apart, ended in 2010 after three seasons. Now three-time Emmy winner Uzo Aduba (Orange Is The New Black) play
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Weâve also separated the different shows and movies by which tier of Crave they fall within. Crave has three tiers: basic, Crave + Movies + HBO and Starz Programming.
On top of Craveâs regular monthly $9.99 CAD cost, Crave + Movies + HBO costs an extra $9.99 per month and Starz is an extra $5.99 per month. Further, Crave is available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5 and more.
Daunte Wright’s death
. Below, she explains why framing his death as an accident is part of a larger problem.
Look up “accident” in the dictionary, and you’ll find these definitions: “an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance” and “lack of intention or necessity.” There are very specific situations that I’d file under “accident.” Spilling a glass of milk all over the kitchen table is an accident. Shit-talking someone in the wrong group text chain is an accident.
Killing someone is not.
There’s a level of carelessness that comes with calling Daunte Wright’s death an accident, and it crystalizes the idea that Black lives are seen as expendable, something you can throw away. The notion that killing a Black person can be summed up as an accident is disturbing; it allows for there to be a lack of responsibility.
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Them (Amazon Prime Video, Friday, 12:01 a.m.): “
Them is certainly a welcome addition to the Black horror cadre that doesn’t seek to sanitize what is truly terrifying to Black people: racists and the past traumas that can literally haunt. It gets painfully uncomfortable, particularly in the two ‘Covenant’ episodes, but although ‘trauma porn’ is often used to describe such renderings, there is nothing gratuitous or pornographic in its depictions of Black trauma. Perhaps in this regard, the exceptional performances of the cast are both blessing and curse.” Read the rest of M Shelly Conner’s review of this horror anthology here. It stars Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Melody Hurd, Allison Pill.