Re: [TV orNotTV] Review: "Patriot Act with Hasan Minaj" on Netflix

Chris Rock is not really targeting an African-American audience. On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 9:42 PM Steve Timko wrote: > Two episodes of Hasan Minaj’s “Patriot Act” have dropped. Although he’s a > fairly recent defector from “The Daily Show,” it most closely resembles > John Oliver’s “Last Week

Re: [TV orNotTV] Review: "Patriot Act with Hasan Minaj" on Netflix

Chris Rock does not make jokes so obscure you need to Google it to understand it. Clearly this is a calculated effort on Minaj's part. ⁣Not sent from an iPhone​ On Nov 1, 2018, 5:43 AM, at 5:43 AM, PGage wrote: >Chris Rock is not really targeting an African-American audience. > >On Wed, Oct

[TV orNotTV] Re: Steven Levitan not fond of Murdochs

Lachlan Murdoch was interviewed at a NYT DealBook event by Andrew Ross Sorkin, and was asked about Levitan's comments... “I completely understand this. He feels the anger and intolerance of opinions that we’re seeing across all of our communities in America,” he said... to a Ken Auletta query

Re: [TV orNotTV] Review: "Patriot Act with Hasan Minaj" on Netflix

You really think his plan is to develop a Netflix show in the US aimed exclusively at Indian, Pakistani and Bengali Muslims? Seems more likely he is trying to do a show that is unapologetically based on his experience. Perhaps he is confident that in the same way that non-white, non-Christian

[TV orNotTV] NotTV: "Lost" Orson Welles film finished by Netflix

*The Other Side of the Wind*, a probably-X-rated mockumentary with fellow filmmakers John Huston and Peter Bogdanovich in the cast, trapped in a vault controlled by Iran's mullahs for years, is put out by the streamer parallel with a final-years-of-Welles docu, "They'll Love Me When I'm

[TV orNotTV] HBO goes dark for DISH and Sling

There's a distribution fight. LINK -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: [TV orNotTV] Review: "Patriot Act with Hasan Minaj" on Netflix

Hah! Phineas and I agree on something. Maybe there's hope for Republicans and Democrats. . . . Nah... On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 7:24 PM PGage wrote: > I am not trying to put words in your mouth or pick a fight - just trying > to understand your point. I thought you were saying his show was >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Review: "Patriot Act with Hasan Minaj" on Netflix

I am not trying to put words in your mouth or pick a fight - just trying to understand your point. I thought you were saying his show was intentionally only enjoyable by South Asians and Muslims (and those who for some reason already were knowledgable about those cultures). THat does not seem

Re: [TV orNotTV] Review: "Patriot Act with Hasan Minaj" on Netflix

I never said exclusively. That's setting up a strawman to knock down. But it seems to be a deliberate effort to target an audience not addressed by other media. A south Asian addressing Arab culture seems to be a stretch. On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 3:06 PM PGage wrote: > You really think his plan