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  • Inside Man (HBO Now)
  • American Graffiti (Showtime/Hulu)
  • Ray Donovan (Showtime/Hulu)
  • Doctor Who (Amazon Instant)
  • The War Room (Hulu/Criterion)
  • The Muppets (Hulu)
  • E.O. Wilson (PBS)
  • The Martian (big screen)

If you have never seen it, I recommend The War Room. It is a documentary about the Clinton campaign of 1992 from the perspective of the campaign headquarters. So, if you are expecting to see a lot of Bill and Hillary, you will only catch glimpses of them. But you will get a sense of how modern political campaigns work. Plus you also get to see a lot of a young George Stephanopolous. And his hair.

Watching the Muppets again, thirty some years after the original show I used to watch with my family is fun. The basic idea is that Miss Piggy is the host of a late night talk and variety show and Kermit is the executive producer; and Kermit and Miss Piggy have broken up and there are lots of issues on the show about that. It seems Miss Piggy will never forget Kermit. One ubiquitous theme in the show is that Miss Piggy never gets along with the guest starr and Kermit spends most of the episode trying to get Miss Piggy to act more human toward the guest star. But I think the thing I enjoy the most about the show is that the jokes are topical and funny. Plus, it seems to be one of the few shows that Monika, Marta, and, occasionally, Michal all enjoy watching.