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Based on a web series created by Rae, Awkward Black Girl, the show explores the friendship of two black women and their insecurities.   Race and social injustice are themes dealt with a light touch as the show is first and foremost a comedy set in south Los Angeles.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the Veep, then the POTUS, then ….

When a boyfriend dumps you, all you do is refuse a partnership at a top law firm, throw away the Xanax, and stalk him to LA.   And you sing and dance all through the process.

Rami Malek, Mr. Robot.

Season three of the multi-nominated and two-time Golden Globe winning series takes its hero, the passionate and chaotic maestro Rodrigo de Souza (Gael Garcia Bernal) to Venice, where work with a bona-fide diva (Monica Belucci) and assorted musical and romantic shenanigans await him. “It is wonderful.

The second nomination for the HBO show; the fifth consecutive one for perennial nominee Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Jill Soloway told us this about creating her groundbreaking show, “My own parent came out as trans some years ago.   I think, when I look back at it, I was trying to make the world safer for my parent to walk out the front door.

The series, which airs on ABC, and its two stars, Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross, all won nominations for the Globes. They play middle-class black parents who worry that their children do not understand or respect their heritage.

A Princeton dropout returns home to Atlanta to try to salvage his life by managing his rapper cousin’s career.   This may be a conventional premise for a comedy, but that is not Atlanta, which airs on FX.

After four seasons as the title character on the Showtime series Ray Donovan, Liev Schreiber wants us to know “I am not Ray.   And it’s fine if people think I am because that is great.