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Mo Amer’s excellent comedy about life as a Palestinian refugee in the US gains ever more poignancy. Plus, Sterling K Brown reunites with This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman for a gripping thriller about the bodyguard of an ex-presidentWith the US administration threatening to take hostility towards immigrants to new levels, there’s real poignancy to the second and concluding season of this excellent comedy. Palestinian refugee Mo (Mo Amer) is in Mexico, trying to get back to the US and trapped between trusting the legal process (risky) and relying on the hustle (riskier). But things are about to get much worse after an attempted border crossing hits a snag. It’s full of wit and warmth but the show’s polemical thrust is subtle and acute – the implication is that the energy and ingenuity immigrants such as Mo are forced to expend on survival would be a boon to any community or country they chose to inhabit.
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