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Pretend it’s a City

A wildly entertaining series of interviews with a New York legend

Comedy, Documentary

best
THE VERY BEST

9.2

show

United States of America
English
Funny, Smart
2021
Alec Baldwin, Fran Lebowitz, Martin Scorsese

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9.2
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This new seven-part docuseries is directed by Martin Scorsese and features conversations between himself and New York author Fran Lebowitz.

Fran talks about her experience in New York, and she’s hilarious, but no one finds her more so than Scorsese. He spends the show recovering from one laugh only to go into the next long one.

Fran has lived in New York a long time, and people know that so they come up to her to ask her about the city. “If I were a civil war buff, and I saw Abraham Lincoln, I’d think ‘Oh! he was there. Let me ask him.’”. That’s who she is.

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