Primetime and What's Making Us Happy
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Primetime and What's Making Us Happy

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 25, 202623 min
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The new docudrama Primetime is a weird and highly fictionalized account of the meteoric rise of To Catch a Predator. Robert Pattinson plays host Chris Hansen, who is struggling to get bigger ratings. Hansen and his team work with local law enforcement to drag the accused sexual abusers of minors before the camera and arrest them. But does director Lance Oppenheim’s highly stylized approach work, or leave viewers feeling empty? If you’re looking for more dramas loosely inspired by real people, check out: ‘Tony’ is a biopic that cooks In 'Marty Supreme,' Timothée Chalamet...

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This week on the NPR Politics podcast, Republicans are on their heels and about to spend a lot of money on ads. Some of these ads are going to be ugly and it's going to be a pretty negative campaign. That's the nature of a midterm when you've got an environment like the one that the Republicans

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are facing. We look at the Republican money machine with less than 40 days until the midterms. This week on the NPR Politics podcast. The first choice it makes is to yeet us straight into the slime.

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Uh, and y'all said, see me, Gene? The first word in my notes is scuzzy. This is a scuzzy movie. Scuzzy, yeah, yeah.

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