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The craziness of Lovecraft Country is nothing compared to the insanity of the past week, but the HBO series is unfortunately back making waves anyway. More specifically, it’s back to making obvious yet ridiculous parallels between 1955 and today. The latest example comes courtesy of an apparent comparison of George Floyd to Emmett Till and an "I can't breathe" reference.

In 2020, television networks are so desperate to bring new programming on-air that Fox aired a political puppet show October 1. Titled Let’s Be Real, puppets and cameo appearances by real people performed skits using current events and the presidential election as topics.

South Park returned on September 30 for “The Pandemic Special” – a standalone hour not attached to a season. There were many wild, intertwining, timely storylines throughout the 60 minute cartoon – including an over-militarization of the police/brutality subplot where police officers take over in the classroom for teachers refusing to return to school – but the most overtly political…

A global flu virus artificially created as a bioweapon. A billionaire madman eager to rush out a vaccine for a pandemic he deliberately created. Children trafficked to be used by this exploitative oligarch. Amazon Prime's new series Utopia, which premiered on Friday, September 25, hits all the hottest topics and potential conspiracies in one fell swoop.

Just about the only thing that could make your blood boil more than the first presidential debate is one half-hour of Freeform’s Kal Penn Approves This Message. For those of you not in the know, this is the program that believes it can still be non-partisan after showcasing Bill Nye and Hillary Clinton. Somehow, I don’t think that will bring people together.

In “Night One,” Showtime’s The Comey Rule was a distorted liberal fantasy of lies and made up scenes and the “Night Two” conclusion on Monday wasn’t much different. In the second episode, the biggest target was General Michael Flynn.

This fall HBO premiered the new series We Are Who We Are, directed by Luca Guadagnino who previously directed the pederasty film Call Me By Your Name. Call Me By Your Name romanticized a sexual relationship between an adult man and a teenaged boy. 

Fox’s Filthy Rich is only in its second week, yet it’s hard to see how it can get worse. The show follows the wealthy televangelist family, the Monreauxs, who learned their believed to be deceased father, Eugene (Gerald McRaney), fathered three illegitimate children. He has two children with his vapid wife, Margaret (Kim Cattrall). As if this weren’t enough, one of the three children…

In what The Guardian called “the longest and most star-studded attack ad in history,” the Showtime limited series The Comey Rule is full of distortions and liberal fantasies of what they wish had really happened in the FBI investigations into Hillary Clinton’s email server and Donald Trump’s involvement with Russia.

These “get out the vote” specials are starting to become my least favorite genre. It doesn’t take a political genius to realize that whenever these things tell us to “vote” they really mean to “vote Democrat.” Take the latest propaganda courtesy of Freeform, Kal Penn Approves This Message.

Touted as the first big televised awards event, the 72^nd Emmy Awards aired on September 20 on ABC. The host of the virtual event was late night show host Jimmy Kimmel.

ABC's presentation of the 72nd Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 20, was a cringe-fest of bad jokes and poor visuals, made worse by the lack of a live audience. One of the more awkward moments came when actor Anthony Anderson, star of the series Black-ish, presented an award for Best Limited Series.

Liberal Jimmy Kimmel is the host of this year's Emmy Awards, on ABC September 20. Considering this awards show is going on during COVID-19 shutdowns, Kimmel had a creative way of revealing that his audience wasn't really there, which, of course, had to involve a dig at Trump and his rallies.

The second half of season three of Showtime’s Our Cartoon President began airing on September 13. The episode titled “Coronavirus” was more of the same from the Stephen Colbert created animated political series.