
Abe Friedtanzer
Film and TV Critic at Freelance
Executive Editor at Awards Buzz
Awards Editor: @awards_buzz Writer: @cinema_daily_us #thefilmexperience @awards_watch Member: @TheAstraAwards 🍅-approved
Articles
Prime Video TV Review: ‘#1 Happy Family USA’ is a Clever Retrospective Look at Fitting In After 9/11
1 week ago |
awardsbuzz.com | Abe Friedtanzer
Ramy Youssef’s Hulu series Ramy, which premiered at SXSW six years ago, offered an alternately stark, alternately funny look at what it’s like to be a Muslim in modern-day America.
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1 week ago |
awardsbuzz.com | Abe Friedtanzer
It’s been two full years since the conclusion of the enthusiastically-received first season of HBO’s The Last of Us, itself an adaptation of the popular video game debuted a decade earlier. The post-apocalyptic landscape navigated by two very different characters each carrying their own secrets was full of violence, treachery, and intrigue.
Interview: Michael Angarano and Michael Cera on How Being Dads Helped Give ‘Sacramento’ Authenticity
2 weeks ago |
awardsbuzz.com | Abe Friedtanzer
In Michael Angarano’s Sacramento, Rickey (Angarano) is spiraling in the wake of the loss of his father and enlists the unwitting Glenn (Michael Cera), who is about to become a father for the first time, to come with him on a spontaneous road trip from Los Angeles to Sacramento that puts the sustainability of their long-term friendship into serious question. Awards Buzz spoke with Angarano and Cera about how their own experiences of being fathers contributed to their portrayals.
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2 weeks ago |
awardsbuzz.com | Abe Friedtanzer
The Handmaid’s Tale returns for its sixth and final season, beginning with June (Elisabeth Moss) and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) on a train together but headed in radically different directions. Determined to bring down Gilead, June navigates her potential allies amid very treacherous territory, while Serena finds her place in a new, reformed version of a totalitarian society, New Bethlehem, which may give her some voice again while preserving her conservative beliefs.
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2 weeks ago |
awardsbuzz.com | Abe Friedtanzer
In Dying for Sex, Molly (Michelle William) is diagnosed with stage four cancer and realizes that it’s time to invest in trying to fulfill her sexual desires, which means breaking things off with her husband Steve (Jay Duplass) and, among other R-rated flings, starting a relationship with her despicable neighbor (Rob Delaney). Based on the podcast of the same name by Nikki Boyer, the series also explores Molly’s close friendship with the ever-loyal Nikki (Jenny Slate).
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