Paul Coogan brings experience and age with his ticket. Whether it was “Gayme Show!,” “Singled Out” or Chrissy Teigen’s downright painful “Chrissy’s Court,” everything on my initial watch list felt like one of those guys who, for whatever reason, overcompensate with giant cars, biceps or guns: pitched way too big, as if desperately trying to escape the phone’s confines. Less than a year later, Jasiel defeats incumbent Sutter. I Promise, Run This City, Flipped, and Chrissy’s Court.

Shows; Our Story; News; Careers; Download Now; 1 season • Docu-series, Biographical . The fact that it is incredible PR for the celebrities does not mean it won’t make you cry, and the same goes for I Promise, a hagiographic yet moving look at the Akron, Ohio, public school funded by LeBron James.

This doc-series follows Jasiel Correia, the youngest mayor in Massachusetts history, who faces wire fraud and extortion prosecutions as he prepares for re-election in his hometown.


Will Forte and Kaitlin Olson star as a married couple in this comedy that feels as if it could be on Fox, and I don’t mean that as an insult.

As first demonstrated in her aughts realty show with Paris Hilton, The Simple Life, Richie is a scamp with a great deadpan.

All contents © 2020 The Slate Group LLC. Why yes, Will Arnett, many times — especially watching “Memory Hole,” your tedious survey of pop-culture train wrecks on the new streaming platform Quibi. The series, titled “Run This City,” is set to be featured on a new app streaming service, Quibi. If eight minutes of distraction sounds like all you can attend to right now, Quibi has a lot of celebrities who would like to help you with that. Others think he’s no more than a con artist. “Have you ever cringed so hard, you could feel your DNA strands unraveling?”. Available Now. As soon as we meet the cocky, smarmy Jasiel Correia II in this documentary series, we start rooting for his demise. But beyond the art, the series also documents community building. You’ve run out of free articles. Or at Least a Few Minutes. This doc-series follows Jasiel Correia, the youngest mayor in Massachusetts history, who faces wire fraud and extortion prosecutions as he prepares for re-election in his hometown.

Politics can be a dirty game.

Quibi may be built around our second screens, but it tries to turn that second screen into a first one. Almost all of the good Quibi shows do this—and, yes, there are a few. In the second episode, she and her assistant Jared try to sell grocery shoppers on all-natural tampons, crystal granola, and a Napa Cabbage Patch Kid—i.e., a doll with an actual cabbage for a head. By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. Yes, this is yet another variation on the enduring “human-hunting” concept. Quibi has gone on a buying spree for every famous person in Hollywood’s leftover ideas, which have been turned into “quick bites” of six to 10 minutes apiece. The fact that I had not previously heard of Punk’d guests Sabrina Carpenter and Liza Koshy (I knew Megan Thee Stallion, at least) marks me, of course, as an old. Please, I’m not that old.

(After that it’s $4.99 per month with ads, $7.99 without.).
Every text I wanted to write back to was a cessation.

Still, it’s worth a look because of its ace ensemble, which also includes Queen Latifah, Tony Hale and Chosen Jacobs.

Since being elected at 23, Jasiel Correia has shaken things up in Fall River, MA.

Sam Sutter defeats Will Flanagan in a special election. And the documentaries included several worthwhile selections, as well. As an old, I have limited interest in watching TV on my cellphone, and Quibi didn’t convert me.

The Stranger Review: Quibi Thriller Thinks It's #MeToo But It's Not . But I kept coming back for more, so mission accomplished.

Quibi. The short-form streaming service debuted this week with more than 40 series in a variety of genres. Set in the summer of 1995 — cue nostalgia for those happy post-grunge days — the show revolves around the killing of queen-bee Chrissy (Kristine Froseth) and her English teacher-slash-completely inappropriate lover, Mr. Carpenter (Mark Duplass). Download Now.

The only documentary in a slate full of documentaries that feels like you could find it on another service is a tale of political corruption. This is the same MO as Netflix, but in Quibi’s case it means an almost-cliffhanger is upon you every seven minutes.

Jasiel Correia II. If you’re interested in some Quibi guidance, here are my top five Quibis.

And when one city landfill closes, it opens the door for upheaval. But when the FBI enters the picture, a federal indictment catches up with Correia. We were excited to be a part of the launch of Quibi. Quibi: 9 Shows Worth Your Time.

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What does Quibi want, my undivided attention? Here’s our trailer for their docuseries Run This City. Volunteering to raise money by becoming the target in a human hunt suddenly becomes a valid life choice. But things improved once I navigated away from the reality shows and into the “movies in chapters,” as Quibi calls its serialized features. Survive (scripted) List slides. New mobile-only streaming service Quibi launched in April with an all-star lineup to rival any other player in the streaming wars: Sophie Turner, Lena Waithe, Liam Hemsworth, Chrissy Teigen, Chance the Rapper, and LeBron James are all in new Quibi shows, with more big names on the way (Steven … Queen Latifah in “When the Streetlights Go On.”. (Photo by Quibi) The Best Quibi Shows to Stream Now. Club staff logged a lot of screen time on their smartphones to review all the non-daily news shows Quibi offers at launch, and narrow down what’s worth your increasingly abundant free time (look for this icon for your best options).

Executive produced by Mark Wahlberg, the show follows Correia’s rise and fall like a slo-mo car crash.

And yes, Hemsworth’s acting barely squeaks above bare minimum (though it’s fun to watch Christoph Waltz run circles around him in their scenes together). Correi rose to power quickly, joining City Council in Fall River, Massachusetts, at the age of 23. Then-city council member Jasiel makes mayoral moves. High-strung, perfectionistic, and irritating to everyone but each other, they’re over-the-top characters that the show throws in increasingly over-the-top circumstances. Download the Quibi app Download the Quibi app. In this not-quite-classifiable comedic spoof of a reality show, she plays a version of herself: Nicole Richie, daughter of Lionel, wife of Joel Madden, wellness influencer, and wannabe trap music star.

It’s one of the few shows that really feels like it knows it was shot for an iPhone, by which I mean it doesn’t even try to include the wide shots that will never look good vertically, and it’s extremely claustrophobic as a result. The big swerves at the end of every episode fit in with what Forte and Olson do best: taking their characters way, way too far. This won’t be news to anybody following the music scene, but the show is good at describing in quick strokes how music stars’ careers are made of distinct building blocks.

I also guffawed at one of the episodes of the rebooted prank show Punk’d—the only one that featured a celebrity I had heard of.

Photo illustration by Slate. (The first ends with “Parent Trap,” a trap song about … being a parent.)

Each episode is dedicated to a different type, with Funke consulting local nonnas. Not text anyone? There’s yet another remake of The Most Dangerous Game, this one co-starring Christoph Waltz and Liam Hemsworth, with the latter as a terminally ill man who agrees to be hunted.