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until a week after taping when the real BIG STARS ON THE
Stephen Bannon is invited to be inter-
viewed onstage at the New Yorker Fes- SMALL SCREEN
tival and the Internet ignites in outrage. Oscar winners and MVPs
Even New Yorker employees threaten make debuts as leads in new
to boycott along with the punditocracy. television series this fall.
We won’t spoil what happens on the —Eliana Dockterman
show, but in real life, editor David Rem-
nick withdrew his invitation to Bannon
within hours.
The Internet blew up. Again.
WHAT THIS EPISODE and all of the new
episodes, which premieres on CBS on
Sept. 27, tap into is an American culture LEBRON JAMES
clash wherein real injustice and per- The Shop (HBO)
ceived slights are covered with equal The Laker hosts a talk show in a
intensity. And perhaps the greatest di- barbershop and debates issues like
vision of all surrounds which voices “Who is the greatest of all time?” with
deserve to be heard and which are too athletes and artists. (Aug. 28)
damaging to be amplified. Which is
not to say that the show’s perspective
is only progressive. The new Murphy
Brown goes right to the marrow when
it comes to the Trump Administration,
but there’s a connection to his support-
ers via Corky, who, like Faith Ford her-
self, is from Louisiana and still lives
JULIA ROBERTS
there when she’s not filming. “I’m hop- Homecoming (Amazon)
ing that I can bridge some sort of gap The A-lister stars as a soldier’s
here because I’ve been doing it in Loui- caseworker in a psychological
thriller based on the popular
siana for a long time,” says Ford. “I ab- podcast. (Nov. 2)
solutely understand both sides because
from there. Murphy’s staff gets into a fa- I live in the middle.”
miliar journalistic debate over whether And Murphy’s son Avery works as a
to have Shannon on the show to pro- liberal reporter for a rival conservative
mote his book. One side argues that network called Wolf. Jake McDorman,
they would be normalizing a guy they 32, says his character may be more com-
see as a racist, but the network execu- passionate toward the right than Murphy
tives vote for having Murphy eviscer- because he spent the 2016 campaign out
ate him on camera because the ratings on the road talking to people all over the SEAN PENN
The First (Hulu)
would be huge. country. “He realizes that a lot of these House of Cards creator Beau
The words Nazi and libtards pop up, people were just disgusted with the fact Willimon’s new show centers on a
and the conversations feel a lot like the that they felt like they had no choice but human mission to Mars, with Penn as
fights happening in kitchens and living to vote for Trump,” says McDorman. a trailblazing astronaut. (Sept. 14)
rooms and break rooms across the coun- Bergen says that she’s bracing her-
try. The show is funny, but it’s under- self for criticism from the right. After
girded by the national pain many feel. all, it won’t be the first time that her fic-
“We look at each other after the end of tional character has struck a real-world
each scene and say, This show is so fear- nerve. In 1992, more than three years
less,” says Bergen. “They take on every- into its decade-long run on air, Mur-
thing and everyone.” phy became a single mom. The next
When Laura Krafft, the writer of the day, Vice President Dan Quayle accused
EMMA STONEA STONE
EMM
Ed Shannon episode, walks into the the show of “mocking” the importance Maniac (Netflix)(Netflix)
Maniac
post-shoot restaurant gathering, people of fatherhood. The left rose up in re- The Oscar winner stars oppositeOscar winner stars o
clap as she moves through the tables. volt at the idea that there was only one Jonah Hill in a sci-fi series abouth Hill in a sci fi serie
She nailed it, but she will have no idea kind of family. Two days later, the story patients in an experimental drug trial
how well she captured the moment was on the front page of the New York who begin to hallucinate. (Sept. 21)
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