2 iconic comedies to stream this week
It’s the first week of May, and it’s time for the celebs to be interrogated.
Ziwe, the new Showtime series from comedian (and former Daily Dot regular)
Ziwe Fumudoh, debuts on May 9 and according to the trailer she will be grilling Fran Lebowitz.
The show grew out of her Instagram Live interview series
Baited, in which she famously questioned Caroline Calloway and Rose McGowan on race and privilege. (A standard question was:
How many Black friends do you have?)
Ziwe will still have that component, filled out with sketch and musical numbers, and it arrives at just the right moment in the cyclical “wokeness” debate. Fumudoh told the
Opinion
Netflix’s
Shadow and Bone includes all the classic touchpoints of a new juggernaut fantasy series: a coming-of-age narrator, an ominous place full of darkness and monsters, period costumes, and British accents. But the series also added a new ingredient it wants to make sure we’re aware of from the jump: racism!
“I live in East Ravka, but I’ve never been welcome here,” Alina (Jessie Mei Li) narrates barely thirty seconds into the first episode, “because I look like my mother, and she looked like the enemy.”
Adapted from the massively bestselling YA fantasy series by Leigh Bardugo,
Shadow and Bone!
Credit: Netflix
Almas’ episodes are memorable. They include exciting and important moments like the Crows’ attempted kidnapping of Alina (Jessie Mei Li) at the Little Palace as well as the aftermath of that attempt when everyone flees The Darkling’s wrath. There are several pivotal scenes during those two hours of television, including the one where Inej (Amita Suman) kills someone for the first time in order to save Kaz’s (Freddy Carter) life. The death is sudden and unexpected, as Almas doesn’t show us Inej or the knife in the back of the Inferni’s head until he drops dead.
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