, Issa learns that her best friend Molly grew up in Los Angeles but had never been to the beach until she was an adult. It was a reflection of the city's long history of segregation, as well as the kind of neighborhood balkanization that the HBO comedy would resist. Issa and Molly's urban explorations, and traversing of different communities across race and class lines, give even L.A.
Just two seasons in, the decades-spanning Italian HBO series, adapted from Elena Ferrante's bestselling quadrilogy, is not only a heartbreaking dual portrait of two girls whose life paths diverge when one is allowed to continue her education and the other is not, but also a fascinating study of a postwar Naples rebuilding itself.
Electric Entertainment’s new show Almost Paradise, set in the Phillipines? Really?