More Holly Hunter is always a good thing, and the actress — who is turning heads with her warm role in “The Big Sick” — is one of the puzzle pieces of HBO‘s new series “Here And Now.”
Creator Alan Ball (“Six Feet Under,” “True Blood“) returns to the network to weave a multi-ethnic, multi-generational story of modern life in America. Basically, it’s exactly the kind of show Donald Trump would loathe. Here’s the official synopsis:
From Oscar® and Emmy® winner Alan Ball, and starring Oscar® and Golden Globe winner Tim Robbins and Oscar®, Emmy® and Golden Globe winner Holly Hunter, the show is a provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia, and their sole biological child — and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.
Co-starring Tim Robbins, Jerrika Hinton, Daniel Zovatto, Raymond Lee, Sosie Bacon, Andy Bean, Joe Williamson and Peter Macdissi, “Here And Now” debuts on February 11th.
“Basically, it’s exactly the kind of show Donald Trump would loathe.” Kevin Jagernauth I have read The Playlist for over 5 years and until the last year or so very much enjoyed the articles and checked daily. I have, however, noticed an increased political slant and an odd obsession with the current POTUS that seems uncomfortably inappropriate for a film blog that as far as I was aware is not politically affiliated with any party (or should be). While you are free to write what you choose, myself and other readers are growing increasingly detached from your apparent agenda. I hope that you and the other Playlist writers will consider removing the political content and instead focus on what used to matter here – the films and TV shows.
Given the talent involved, I was expecting more.I’ve read the pilot and was hoping the trailer could offer some clarity about where, exactly, they were headed with this. I figured it had to be someplace better than episode 1, which for the most part never strays far from the tropes one would expect in a story about an upper middle class multiracial family. With one mystical exception, it pretty much reads like the old ABC soap “Brothers and Sisters” with the added wrinkle of each sibling representing a different color in the diversity rainbow.
But that would appear to pretty much sums it up.