Here and Now
Created by Alan Ball
On HBO
A cerebral, darkly comic family drama that uses a progressive household and its intersections with contemporary America to interrogate cultural polarization and identity.
A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia and their sole biological child — and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.
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