The New Yorker Presents
Season 1
2016 • 11 Episodes
Episodes
1. Episode 1
February 16, 2016
Filmmaker Alex Gibney (Going Clear) tells how the FBI could have prevented the 9/11 attacks - if it weren't for the CIA. Le Cafe de Balzac: Paul Giamatti plays 19th-century French author Honore de Balzac, who drank 50 cups of coffee each day. Unreality Star: Patients with "The Truman Show delusion" believe their lives are being watched on TV. Cartoon by Roz Chast.
2. Episode 2
February 16, 2016
The Ride of Their Lives: Filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams) profiles two young people in the world's most dangerous sport - bull riding. Black Bodies in Motion and in Pain: Writer Edwidge Danticat looks at racist violence in America through art. The Death and Life of Atlantic City: Writer Nick Paumgarten on the closure of the Revel casino. Cartoons by Roz Chast and Liana Finck.
3. Episode 3
March 15, 2016
No overview available.
4. Episode 4
March 22, 2016
No overview available.
5. Episode 5
March 22, 2016
No overview available.
6. Episode 6
March 29, 2016
No overview available.
7. Episode 7
March 29, 2016
No overview available.
8. Episode 8
April 5, 2016
No overview available.
9. Episode 9
March 7, 2016
THE SILVER THIEF: Filmmakers Chapman Way and Maclain Way (Wild Wild Country; The Battered Bastards of Baseball) profile master thief Blane Nordahl. UP AND THEN DOWN: Writer Nick Paumgarten explains why life as we know it depends on elevators. TOM OF FINLAND: The artist called Tom of Finland changed the image of gay men forever. Is his work porn, or is it art? CARTOONS by Farley Katz and Benjamin Schwartz.
10. Episode 10
April 12, 2016
No overview available.
11. Episode 11
April 12, 2016
No overview available.