#Faith Soloway

[janamonji]

'A Transparent Musical': A Cautious Farewell Party ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I didn’t follow the Amazon Prime Video comedy-drama streaming series “Transparent.” The series ended on 27 September 2019 with a feature-length finale: “Musicale Finale.” The “A Transparent Musical”  is a cozy farewell party for Maura’s story, with a book written by series creator Joey Soloway (with MJ Kaufman) and music, lyrics and vocal arrangements by Faith Soloway. The production had its…

[fernsehn]

I love this. I think it’s an actual Bar/Bat/Bart Mitzwa lyric translated into english.

[mayyim-hayyim-blog]

We are so proud to be featured in The Jewish Advocate this morning! Faith Soloway, a writer and producer of Amazon's hit show Transparent, shares her excitement about Mayyim Hayyim's ongoing commitment to LGBTQ+ inclusion and making room in the water for Jews of all gender identities. We hope to welcome her here again soon. (Stay tuned for the upcoming release of our new gender affirmation immersion ceremony)

[spotlightsaga]

Kevin Cage of @spotlightsaga reviews... Transparent /S04\/E01\ Standing Order Airdate: September 22, 2017 @amazonvideo Ratings: Privatized @amazon Score: 8.5/10 *************POSSIBLY LIGHT SPOILERS************* ‘They’ say eventually good things happen to ‘good people’... But if you throw mathematics in the game, then statistically, and eventually, something good will happen to everyone (bad, good, and whatever lies somewhere in the middle). Let’s not also forget there’s environmental factors involved, so a ‘good thing’ for me may be much different than what it would be to a Monk in Tibet, an aging ‘Club Kid’ in New York, or Maura’s (Jeffrey Tambor) vision quest and whatever a man like Josh Pfefferman’s (Jay Duplass) would consider a ‘good thing’. It’s all relative. Eventually, if enough ‘good things’ don’t come our way, we go looking for those things... To San Francisco, to Miami, to New York City, to Los Angeles, London, Lisbon, Rio, Dublin, Kyoto or Tel Aviv... Wherever it is that we have a connection, those of us that have the luxury of knowing our history on a deep level, anyway. The rest of us just close our eyes and pick a spot on the map, and that’s good enough. See, again, it’s relative. Many of us also have that whole ‘Black Sheep’ vibe. Maybe we ended up on the wrong side of the family tree, we’re perpetually misunderstood. Take Ali (Gabby Hoffman) for example. She’s the baby of the Pfefferman Family. She has so much handed to her on a kind of platter that many of us can’t even comprehend. However, Maura processes events in life differently... Reactions, emotions... She simply doesn’t respond like the rest of her family. She’s surrounded by her loud, warm but sometimes extremely trying Jewish family and she just blanks. She goes somewhere else. Suddenly she remembers a traumatic event that involved a hug with a creepy Uncle while she was developing and now she’s aware that these are the same voices that pushed her into a uncomfortable situation, albeit unknowingly. I’m not sure that makes a difference. It’s the endgame, and nothing else matters once you’ve crossed the finish line. Processing past events isn’t like getting up and brushing the dirt of the scrape on your knee. Everyone wants it to be so simple, but it’s so easy to just get lost in the void of confusion. These thoughts are merely surface thoughts, at least for now. They’ll be explored later as we slowly lace in all the subplots in what is always one of the years top Character Study Pieces. Amazon, and particularly Jill Soloway, have a way of telling us a story about people that not many viewers most likely know and connecting them with us in a way that’s objectively profound. All our stories as human beings might be different, but there’s a common thread, somewhere... It just might not be the same color, the same brand. S3 was a somber one, but it ended on a very ‘forward’ note for The Pfefferman’s. Maura has taken on a vision quest and decided to go back to connect with Tel Alviv, which probably should be worth the price of admission alone. Ali, is as usual, very much in Ali World. She’s still discerning what these traumatic and sometimes ‘epiphany-like’ events in her past mean to her, what they are. That’s definitely something I can identify with. I can only speak for those that lived hard and made it to their 30’s, but I’m just now allowing myself to let go of anger and dissect things for what they are... Attempt to see things as how they really exist in this world. Even with Maura going to Tel Aviv, who makes an eye-catching Trans-Woman in the most awkward of ways, STILL is unable to match the danger and turbulent road I see ahead for Josh and his mother, Shelly Pfefferman (Judith Light). The mother/son pair bunkie up and appear to do nothing but create tension until it bursts. Men... Love your mother, cherish them in your own way... But don’t live with them, especially if she’s a very loud, opinionated, and nosy Jewish woman. I’m joking of course, but only slightly. As they say, there’s a little truth to every joke, that’s why it’s funny and just so sick of people forgetting to laugh. Just the chaos the family stirs up when they are all in the room together talking over each other... OMG! It’s like going to the mall with your, mother... Surely, men, you know what I’m talking about. You desperately want to please her, but you just want to fast forward the clock with newly discovered mind powers until it all ends. Strangely enough, it’s usually that tension that boils over that brings everyone to a whole new understanding. So I guess, what I’m really saying is... No matter what happens in life, you’ll come to a point where everyone is suddenly making transitions to different places at the same time... And as awful as it can be, you gotta get through it so that you can grow and strengthen your bond. Somewhere deep down, I know that Pffererman’s will learn something about each other, relationships, and themselves. S3 started with a bang of an episode. S4 is more of a smooth check-in... This was their eventuality at the end of last season. Now, The Pfefferman Family faces the hard part. Those journeys they all must take alone, together, with someone they’d least expect... Those are all what comes next. You might not be anything like The Pfeffermans or even know anyone remotely like the The Pfefferman’s, but The Human Condition is still what separates us all and then brings us back together again... Like the psychedelic response sand has on the top of a drum... infinite patterns... infinite possibilities... Always joined together, even when you are apart. The 4th Season of ‘Transparent’ begins... You did bring some tissues right? **************Written by Kevin Cage*************** TVTime/Letterboxd/FB/IG/Path/Pin/Tumblr/Twitter: @SpotlightSaga 📺 TVTime📺 http://www.tvtime.com ✅Spotlight Saga FB Page! Give us a like!✅ http://www.facebook.com/spotlightsaga 🚧Spotlight Saga's Main Page is Under Works🚧 http://www.spotlightsaga.com 🔥The Culture Pit FB Group🔥 http://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtsEntertainment Kevin Cage // Justin O'Malley // Cody Cole // Jerry Wilson // Kat Holiday // Carolyn Holt // Yackarette Borge // Carina Enered //

[jmsa1287]

With a Musical Finale, it's Curtain Call for 'Transparent'

the final installment of “Transparent” has a lot of problems, most notably the same ones that plagued the final “House of Cards” season: It can’t move beyond its disgraced lead star.

There is no question that "Transparent" is one of the most important TV shows of the decade. Though far from perfect, Jill Soloway's dramedy, which began in 2014, paved the way for mainstream transgender and nonbinary representation on the small screen, shining light on many trans and queer issues. It also recently made TV history again for far a less savory reason: Jeffrey Tambor, the Emmy-winning star of "Transparent," was fired from the series last year after an investigation was launched about claims of sexual misconduct made against him. Like the truncated final season of "House of Cards," which faced the same set of circumstances with its lead Kevin Spacey, "Transparent" continues on for one last bow but without its central figure. And for better or worse, again, just like "House of Cards," the "Transparent: Musical Finale" is all about its missing star. After an Alanis Morissette-inspired number about loneliness and L.A. traffic, sung by the cast, the Pfefferman family learns that Maura (previously played by Tambour) has suddenly died; the body discovered by her close friend Davina (Alexandra Billings). Maura is never shown — not photographs or in flashbacks (although, during a daydream, a young girl represents her at one point) — but she nevertheless looms over the final chapter — a cloud that is similar to Spacey's there-not-there presence in the final season of "House of Cards" that was ostensibly all about Robin Wright's character. Instead of moving past Maura's death, the 100-minute finale focuses on it, paying ode to the trans parent for a last goodbye.

Directed by Soloway, the finale is full of songs written by their sibling Faith Soloway, who is also a writer on the series. Making the finale about how Maura's death impacts the Pfeffermans, which includes children Josh (Jay Duplass); Sarah (Amy Landecker); Ali (Gaby Hoffmann) — who now goes by Ari — and ex-wife Shelly (Judith Light), is an understandable albeit not the best way to close out the show. Wrapping "Transparent" up with a movie is another agreeable option. But making it a musical — at least with this set of songs, which includes a number in which the cast sings about a "joyocaust" (the opposite of the Holocaust?) is confounding. Most of the songs don't work and are a jarring juxtaposition to the finale's somber tone. There are a few successful moments, however, including a beautiful ballad called "Let Her Be OK," sung by Davina and LGBTQ youth during Maura's funeral. Through song and dance, the "Transparent" finale takes place over a few days where the Pfeffermans come to terms with the passing of their "moppa," setting up her funeral arrangements and dealing with what she left in her will. Each child responds to the sudden death differently, as does Shelly, who pulls an all-nighter and writes a play about her family, recruiting a small troupe to act it out in order to avoid helping her responsibilities and her own emotions in the grieving process. As always, "Transparent" is a deeply Jewish show and its finale continues to explore identity, faith and inherited generational trauma but ends on a sour note with that perplexing "joyocaust" song. It's an attempt to turn the decades-lasting effects of the Holocaust into something positive and hopeful but is probably the single worst thing the show has ever done; an unfortunate blemish on a groundbreaking series.

"Transparent: Musical Finale" is ambitious in its attempts to close the book on Pfefferman family in an unexpected way. It mostly does not work, sending off one of the most interesting queer series in TV history with a cringe. The finale debuts in a different TV landscape from which it began five years ago and it's hard not to notice the show's whiteness and its privilege. The Pfeffermans are rich and secure; they face adversity to be sure but their privilege is a safety net. Maura's coming out as trans in 2014 was brave — and it would be similarly brave if she came out in 2019. But with "Pose" — one of the very best LGBTQ series ever — it's impossible to ignore the different obstacles someone like Maura faces compared to a trans person of color from a different socioeconomic background. "Transparent" has indeed explored this divide in the past, and for a brief moment, the finale touches upon it, but there's absolutely no room to properly deal with it in this form. Instead, the "Transparent" finale faces inward and is small. It has nothing to say about the state of trans people and trans rights in 2019 and opts to be a specific story about a family dealing with a sudden loss of a complicated character.

[tulipblack]

COCK BLOCK & TIT BIT #144

26 June 2020 /  / LISTEN LIVE ON 8K.NZ Friday 12:00 NZT repeats Saturday 15:00, Monday 06:00, Wednesday 00:00 /  / Kebabette - TITBIT 144 - its alright to be afraid

Tulip Black - COCK BLOCK 144 - Show Tunes

Sofi Tukker - Good Time Girl (The New Pope) Taana Gardner - Heartbeat Club Version (Pose!) DJ Shadow - Fixed Income (Top Boy S02) Nicholas Britell - Succession (Succession) Devlin - All Along the Watchtower cover (The Young Pope / The New Pope) Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - How the West was Really Won (Watchmen, 2019) Fiona Apple - Container (The Affair) Greg Or Ian - The Trip to Greece with Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon Jan Garbarek - Regnantem Sempiterna (Devs) Blondie - Dreaming (The Deuce S03) DKVPZ & Tropkillaz - Don't Give Up (I May Destroy You) RuPaul' Drag Race Theme Song Murray Gold - Gentleman Jack Theme (Gentleman Jack) David Arnold, Michael Price - Dracula Theme (BBC One, 2020) Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up (Russian Doll) DJ RAFF - Latino & Proud (Broad City) Betty Who - All Things (Queer Eye) Norma Tenega - You're Dead (What We Do In The Shadows) Ghostpoet - Finished I Ain't (Top Boy) Elvis Costello - This Year's Girl ft Natalie Bergman (The Deuce S02) Stephen Rennicks - Opening Vox (Normal People) Faith Soloway - Joyocaust (Transparent) Isobel Waller-Bridge - CREDITS (Fleabag) Survive - Stranger Things (C418 remix) (Stranger Things)

[stars2day]

Composers Emile Mosseri (“Homecoming” Season 2), Ariel Marx (“Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer”), Faith Soloway (“Transparent: Musicale Finale”), Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Season 3), Paul Leonard-Morgan (“Tales From the Loop”), and Nathan Barr (“Carnival Row”) will take part in a Q&A on June 29 at 5 p.m. PT/eight p.m. […] The post ‘Mrs. Maisel’ ‘Homecoming’ ‘Ted Bundy’ ‘Transparent’ ‘Tales From the Loop’ ‘Carnival Row’ Composers to Join Variety Streaming http://dlvr.it/RYrSYJ

[longlistshort]

Nilüfer Yanya- Baby Luv

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/16-11/19/17)-

Thursday

British singer Nilüfer Yanya is playing The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever with Monogem opening

Array @The Broad is screening the film Daughters of The Dust at The Theatre at the Ace Hotel with a conversation to follow with directors Julie Dash and Ava DuVernay

Writer and artist Marisela Norte will be giving a walk-through of Hammer Museum's Radical Women exhibition (free)

Tennis are playing at the Fonda Theatre with Wild Ones

Hauser & Wirth are screening German artist Andy Hope 1930's Vertical Horizon (free but register)

There are still tickets available for Metronomy's early (6pm) show at The Regent Theater

Beach Slang are playing at the Echoplex with Dave Hause and The Mermaid and See Through Dresses opening

Friday

The Underachievers are playing a $10 show with Warm Brew and Injury Reserve at The Novo

Surf Rock Is Dead and Sarah Chernoff are opening for Shout Out Louds at the El Rey Theatre

LA Zoo Lights, the annual holiday celebration at the zoo in Griffith Park, begins tonight and runs through 1/7

Curls are playing with Hibou and Suncruiser at the Moroccan Lounge

There are still a few tickets left for a midnight screening of Pulp Fiction at Tarantino's New Beverly Cinema

Egrets on Ergot, Bastidas!, and Sister Mantos are playing a Solidarity with Mariachis' Rent Strike Benefit Show at The Smell

Saturday

REDCAT is hosting an all day Symposium on Mike Kelley's Kandors, currently on view at Hauser & Wirth (free but ticketed)

The Great Los Angeles Walk returns for its annual cross city trek, this time taking Beverly Boulevard (free)

Jackalope Art and Craft Fair returns to its outdoor Pasadena location (also Sunday)

Vulture Festival LA is bringing numerous celebrities to the Hollywood Roosevelt for ticketed events including Issa Rae, Jill Soloway in conversation with Lena Waithe and more

Gary Numan is playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Me Not You opening

Daedelus, Mono/Poly and Free The Robots are playing a show at Union Nightclub

Sunday

Pasadena's wacky annual Doo Dah Parade returns with after parties to follow (free)

Window dresser, cultural critic, author, and creative ambassador-at-large for Barneys New York, Simon Doonan, will be discussing Mundo Meza in conjunction with MOCA's exhibition Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., at the West Hollywood Council Chambers

Baio and Teen Daze are playing an early show at Zebulon

Ibeyi are performing with TheMind at The Theatre at the Ace Hotel

Tony Molina, Faith Healer, Toner, and Cecil Frena are playing at The Smell

[blackstarjp]

Martin Freeman, Fremantle-backed indie team on 'Paradise Lost

EXCLUSIVE: Dancing Ledge Productions developing “biblical Game Of Thrones”.

Fremantle-backed indie Dancing Ledge Productions and Sherlock and The Hobbit star Martin Freeman are in early development on the first ever drama series adaptation of one of the most iconic works in literature: John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost.

Freeman, and Dancing Ledge CEO Laurence Bowen are currently discussing the project with writers and broadcasters in the UK and US.

Freeman has a development deal with the fledgling UK film and TV outfit and is on board the project as an executive producer. His participation as an actor has yet to be decided.

The company has signed up Gravity and Guardians Of The Galaxy outfit Framestore to produce the VFX.

The Eichmann Show producer Bowen told Screen: “Paradise Lost is like a biblical Games of Thrones transporting the reader into an internecine world of political intrigue and incredible violence. At stake? The future of mankind. There’s never been a better time for big, original, bold drama series and Martin and I both feel incredibly inspired by the material.”

Freeman added: “Paradise Lost is epic, exciting and surprisingly modern. And maybe the first time the devil gets all the best tunes!”

The epic poem, written in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton, concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

The first version consisted of ten books, which have inspired artists ranging from William Blake to Salvador Dali.

More recently, Paradise Lost comes into play in the third season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., with strong references to the book including an episode named after it.

It was a model for aspects of 1997 feature The Devil’s Advocate, starring Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino, while a big budget 2012 feature adaptation from Legendary was set to star Bradley Cooper and Casey Affleck but fell apart before production.

The iconic work was also one of the prime inspirations for Philip Pullman’s trilogy of novels His Dark Materials and also influenced aspects of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series.

Milton followed the poem with another epic in the shape of Paradise Regained.

Dancing Ledge recently completed shooting new comedy series Porters for Dave and UKTV with Susan Wokoma (Chewing Gum), Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner), Claudia Jessie (Line of Duty), and stand up Edward Easton.

It also recently announced the commission of its first US-based series Super Sensitives, from Transparent writer Faith Soloway.

The company will be speaking alongside Fremantle at tomorrow’s Media Production Show in London.

(x)

[liltree]

Playlist 7/11/19

Suffragette Station 20th anniversary show!

Everything is Music - Kris Delmhorst As Cool As I Am - Dar Williams Fall or Fly - Edie Carey Easy People - The Nields Whisper - Jenny Reynolds Radical - Catie Curtis Number Six Driver - Eddie From Ohio It’s a Long Way Home - Jennifer Kimball Something Burning - Deb Talan Hunger - Voices on the Verge 1984 - Anaïs Mitchell Tigers Above, Tigers Below - Ellis The Boob Fairy - Deirdre Flint Lesbo Song - Faith Soloway 9/8 Central - Liz Carlisle Fireflies - Lori McKenna Beautiful Dawn - The Wailin Jennys The Littlest Birds - The Be Good Tanyas Drag Queens in Limousines - Mary Gauthier When We Knew It All - Cheley Tackett Goodtime Van - Terri Hendrix 2 Horns and 2 Wings Michelle Malone & The Low Down Georgia Revue Like a River - Kasey Chambers I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory - Kathleen Edwards

STAN block: Did I Shave My Legs For This? - Deana Carter Love Is Dead - Hazel English The Only One - Beauty Queen Esto Es Real (8100 mg) - Combo Chimbita Trophy Wife - Girls of the Internet Six O’Clock News - Kathleen Edwards Superbike - Jay Som Disco - Surf Curse Unhand Me You Wretch - Dusty Trails Lotus Gate - Kainalu Space and Time - Miloe Besos de Mezcal - Flor de Toloache ¿Qué Tiene? - Ximena Sariñana Como La Flor - Dracula Christmas Time Is Here - Khruangbin Cáile (feat. Buscabulla) - Clubz Escape From Los Angeles - Holy Ghost!

[fernsehn]

My favorite moment of the Transparent Musicale Finale? The song Divina and her choir sang at Mauras funeral: “Let Her Be Okay.”  We all fall from the tree some day... The Musicale Finale is a bit of a mess. Plot- and tone-wise it’s all over the place. And yet it’s filled with moving and worthy ideas and moments. I especially loved the spiritual aspects and everything about the Shelley-Kids dynamic. Rarely does a show or film really get the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters. The empathy that’s shown to Shelley in the Musicale Finale is radical, eye-opening and transformative.

[agitatogrande]

This is my friend Amy (the one playing the mother in the video). When I was 12 and she was 24, she introduced me to Falsettos at the summer camp I attended, a mere two towns away from Natick, Massachusetts (childhood home of William Finn). She directed and choreographed a rendition of “Everyone Hates His Parents” where my friends Dave and Sue were Marvin and Trina, my friend Josh was Jason, and the rest of our “Showtunes Plus” class was a giant floating disembodied Mendel-cloud.

Two months after she taught the class, she gave birth to a daughter who is now a rising sophomore in college (which makes me feel incredibly fucking old).

The next year, she returned, then she was gone for 2000 and 2001 (which was my last year) and came back briefly after I had left. I didn’t see her again for years until I was out of college and she had directed a musical adaptation of Hamlet written and composed by Faith Soloway (who is the composer of the piece in this video as well) at a children’s theater in 2009. It wasn’t the first time the show had been staged; I’d been in the inaugural cast nine years prior in the program where I’d met Faith and Amy.

Anyway, despite being literally the least Jewish person on the planet, I think Amy captures maternal Jewish neuroses quite well and I would LOVE to see her take on Trina some day.

(Song title: “Your Boundary Is My Trigger,” from the potential Transparent musical)

[mayyim-hayyim-blog]

Last chance -- don't forget to honor her with a gift to Mayyim Hayyim! Learn why Faith Soloway, writer and producer of Transparent is supporting Mayyim Hayyim this Mother’s Day and make a gift today, May 8, in honor of a special woman in your life, and we’ll send her a card with your note inside in time for Mother’s Day. (mayyimhayyim.org/donate)

[marshall25q86-blog]

What Induces Dry & Cracked Skin Around The Fingernails?

One lady's notions concerning cuckolding, fixing, intersexual erotica, and also sexuality as a whole. They create pharmaceutical medications for specialty therapeutic regions such as immunology, severe kidney condition, hepatitis C, females's wellness, oncology, and also neuroscience. However normally, she claimed she thinks anybody who dedicates sexual assault must be immediately invalidated off having the ability to look after susceptible people in any capacity. At about 7:30 pm Wednesday evening, April 29, 1970, Burt Reynolds left Inger Stevens' home after possessing a disagreement along with her. This confirms that also in the 3rd century the method from the Church was to wish the faithful departed: those which died with truth belief and also obviously free from mortal sin. However Jesus' reception from christening through John is considered to be the transition in between John's prefigured christening and also the real baptism of Christ. Raising the spoon higher right into the air I dropped a difficult SWAT on her appropriate cheek creating the lady gasp and press my palm securely, at that point a matching tough SWAT on the left cheek.

Jackson, nonetheless, will definitely relocate to the White House on the back of the $20 while the well-known champ of human rights, Harriet Tubman, has his place on the front. The next instance our experts will certainly take into consideration is actually one where the Scriptures mentions that the prayers of a man would certainly create God to take people He or else definitely would not.

It was actually a learning I needed to discuss, so I connected to 4 of the ladies who led me to this sexual waking up, Read Alot more as well as penetrated them on porn's problems as well as prospective, their own sex-related adventures, and also the intersection from feminist movement and also grown-up amusement. Ronald 'Butch' DeFeo Jr - the male which encouraged The Amityville Horror - slaughtered six members of his own household at 3 in the early morning, while multiple strange incidents happen at around the exact same attend The Exorcism Of Emily Flower - another film apparently based on true activities. I created him dress in his women's things as soon as he acquired home every day and made him carry out each one of the housework. St. Paul details specifically what he means by faith in Christ Jesus" in the extremely next verse (knowledgeable 27). Loofe's mommy told HuffPost that investigatives prepare to question both occasionally Friday.

I have actually had problem with weight much of my lifestyle and also know along with every aspect from meals obsession, anorexia, weight gains, considerable weight reduction, yo-yo diet programs, dark elegances amphetamines, questionable physicians along with steed urine gos, medically administered fasts, effective weight loss programs with their service style based on failure, etc They claim that the washing" doesn't describe the water of christening, yet to the purifying from the Phantom without baptism. Great mid-day, and thanks for joining our team today to discuss our latest business progression as well as TESARO's 4th one-fourth as well as full year 2017 operating end results. Soloway: I Passion Cock" exists as a corrective for the manner in which many girls find female physical bodies and also sexual activity, which resembles, My physical body must be ideal. I was established enough to make the improvement that I went and also obtained numerous months' really worth of sessions as well as devoted to that. Little did I understand that I would certainly fall in love with how hauling made me think. When they retracted their promotion after an online video exposed the then-candidate had proudly declared he might sexually assault ladies without repercussion, the University Republicans have actually outdoed on their own coming from Trump in the past--. Comparable-store sales rose 4 per-cent in the second quarter ended July 30, trumping the ordinary analyst estimation of 3.5 percent, baseding upon a poll through research study agency Consensus Metrix.

[ethanalter]

12 TV Shows to Look for at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival

Allison Tolman in ‘Downward Dog’ (Photo: ABC)

Thanks to titles like Manchester by the Sea, Weiner, and Southside With You, 2016 was a great year for movies at the Sundance Film Festival. But it was arguably an even better year for TV, as such acclaimed series like Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience and Hulu’s 11.22.63 played to their first audiences in Park City, Utah. Sundance was also the launching pad for one of the year’s most celebrated works in either film or television: ESPN’s mammoth seven-hour docuseries, OJ: Made in America, which made numerous year-end Top Ten lists (including Yahoo TV’s own Ken Tucker) and is poised to earn an Oscar nod for Best Documentary Feature when nominations are announced on Jan. 24. “We opened our eyes to allow more television,” festival director John Cooper told Yahoo TV last year. “It’s been growing very organically. The creators lead and we try to provide the best platform we can.”

Related: Red Carpet Flashback! 2002 Sundance Film Festival

That platform will continue to expand over the course of Sundance’s 2017 edition, which runs from Jan. 19-29. This year, the festival is hosting screenings for a pair of high-profile network TV shows, as well as an assortment of docuseries, web series, and promising pilots looking for a channel and/or streaming service to call home. Here are the 12 TV projects to keep your eye on during and after Sundance.

Abstract: The Art of Design (Premieres Feb. 10 on Netflix)

In the tradition of Netflix’s hit cooking-themed series Chef’s Table, Abstract provides an in-depth look at some of the men and women who design the spaces, sights, and even sneakers that we see in the world around us. Each of the show’s eight installments focuses on the work of one celebrated designer — from Air Jordan guru Tinker Hatfield to illustrator Christoph Niemann — whose episode will premiere in Park City.

Downward Dog (Premieres midseason on ABC)

Allison Tolman took her time choosing a follow-up to her breakout turn as Molly Solverson on the first season of the FX hit, Fargo. But the wait has paid off with Downward Dog, an inventive adaptation of a popular web series. Tolman plays Nan, a newly single woman who has thrown herself into work since her break-up with Jason (Lucas Neff). The separation hasn’t just impacted her — it’s also wrecking havoc on the once-idyllic life enjoyed by her faithful dog, Martin (voiced by series co-creator, Samm Hodges). The pilot is a strong beginning, and Sundance will screen three additional episodes, followed by a Q&A with Tolman and other key members of the cast and crew. Including, we assume, the dog(s) playing Martin.

Gente-fied (Premieres TBA)

Gentrification: It’s not just for Brooklyn, anymore! America Ferrera executive produced, co-wrote, and appears in this short-form web series set in the rapidly changing L.A. neighborhood of Boyle Heights. The area’s demographic shift from a largely Latino population to one that includes young, white hipsters is depicted over the course of seven episodes from the perspective of seven different Boyle Heights residents.

The History of Comedy (Premieres Feb. 9 at 9 p.m. on CNN)

Having previously presented decade-by-decade histories of the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s over the past three years, CNN now gets serious about the past, present, and future of comedy. Overseen by a team of directors that includes Will and Grace star Sean Hayes, the eight-chapter History of Comedy spans Ancient Greece to modern-day Hollywood, and speaks with such luminaries as Larry David, in its quest to answer the age-old question: “What’s so funny?” The Sundance premiere will consist of two episodes: “Spark of Madness,” devoted to comics who traffic in darker subject matter, and “Going Blue,” which explores the thin line between hilarious and offensive and profiles the comedians — like Lenny Bruce — who gleefully cross it.

Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On (Premieres Spring 2017 on Netflix)

‘Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On’ (Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Two years ago, Parks and Recreation star Rashida Jones traveled to Park City to introduce audiences to a documentary she co-produced chronicling young women’s experiences in the pornography industry. She’s returning in 2017 with her directorial debut “Women on Top,” one of several episodes in the Hot Girls Wanted spinoff series, Turned On, which explores love and sex in the digital age. Jones’s episode specifically looks at the female performers and directors who are striving to make porn that empowers, rather than simply exploit, women.

I Love Dick (Premieres TBA on Amazon Prime)

Transparent creator Jill Soloway and her frequent muse, Kathryn Hahn, premiered the pilot for their second Amazon series on the streaming service back in August to strong reviews. They’re bringing that episode, plus two additional half-hours, to Sundance, along with co-stars Griffin Dunne and Kevin Bacon, who respectively portray Hahn’s husband and the rugged object of her affection. Filmed on location in Marfa, Texas, the series retains Soloway’s expertise in creating incisive character portraits that are both compelling and slightly cringe-inducing.

Playdates (Premieres TBA)

Paul Scheer and Carla Gallo in “Playdates’ (Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

With apologies to DJ Jazzy Jeff, parents will understand the challenges confronting husband-and-wife team, Bennett and Julie (Paul Scheer and Carla Gallo). Freshly transplanted from Chicago to L.A., the duo confront the peculiarities of California culture while making sure their young kids remain well-adjusted in the land of sunshine and snobbery as well. Screened as part of the Independent Pilot Showcase for TV pilots seeking pick-ups, Playdates should allow Scheer the opportunity to explore the serio-comic territory his former Human Giant collaborators, Rob Huebel and Aziz Ansari, are successfully navigating on Transparent and Master of None, respectively.

Rise (Premieres Jan. 27 on Viceland)

Viceland’s latest docuseries gives full-throated voice to Native American activists seeking to protect their lands and culture. Among the three episodes screening at Sundance is “Sacred Water,” which directly addresses the ongoing Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Expect that controversy to return to the headlines after President-elect Trump takes office.

Shots Fired (Premieres Mar. 22 on Fox)

Husband-and-wife team Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood are behind the camera for Fox’s answer to ABC’s acclaimed crime anthology, American Crime. After the shooting of a white college student by a black police officer inflames racial tensions in a North Carolina town, a Department of Justice investigator (Sanaa Lathan) and Special Prosecutor (Stephan James) are tasked with handling not only that case, but also a past tragedy involving another potentially race-related murder. Stephen Moyer, Richard Dreyfus, and Helen Hunt are also among the ensemble of the 10-episode event series.

Strangers (Premieres in 2017 on Refinery29)

‘Strangers’ (Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

If only we had a Rolodex of houseguests this cool; fresh off of a breakup and stuck in a directionless late-20s existence, Isobel (Zoe Chao) rents out her spare room to visitors played by the likes of Jemima Kirke, Shiri Appleby, and Langston Kerman. And when she’s not trying to make those strangers her friends, she’s striving to open her own professional and personal horizons. After all, who says you’re too old to experience a coming of age story when you’re pushing 30?

Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Premieres in 2017 on Spike TV)

Spike TV gets into the long-form documentary game with a six-episode series that’s part Serial and part The Night Of. When he was 16 years old, Bronx native Kalief Browder was falsely accused of stealing a backpack and spent three years in the harsh conditions of Rikers Island despite not being convicted of a crime. Executive produced by Jay Z and directed by Jenner Furst, Time chronicles this miscarriage of justice, which came to a tragic end with Browder’s suicide in 2015.

When the Street Lights Go Down (Premieres TBA)

‘When the Street Lights Go Down’ (Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Stranger Things fans, here’s your next ‘80s throwback obsession, albeit one that channels David Lynch rather than John Carpenter. Set in small town Illinois in 1983, the pilot for this proposed series — which is currently looking for a home — opens with the brutal murder of the high school’s most popular cheerleader and her older lover. The tendrils of that incident spread outward from there, touching everyone from an aspiring journalist to the town bad boy. Director Brett Morgan effectively weaves touches of Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet into an investigation-driven narrative that’s strongly Serial-ized. The best thing you can say about Street Lights is that when the first episode ends, you’ll immediately want to binge the next two, three, or ten chapters.

[mironivanov]

‘Transparent,’ the Musical: Coming Soon?

Faith Soloway, a writer for the Amazon series who is the sister of its creator, will present the show “Should ‘Transparent’ Become a Musical?” at Joe’s Pub.