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Mo Amer’s Last Rodeo
The Palestinian American comic made a Netflix show based on his life. As he was writing the final season, October 7 happened.
The season doesn’t directly address the war over its eight episodes; instead, Palestine is a steady thrum in the background of the characters’ lives that serves as a source of sadness, hope, and sitcom shenanigans. In the first season, which debuted in August 2022, Mo Najjar is a part-time strip-club DJ and bootleg salesman attempting to make ends meet in Houston, where he lives with his mother (Farah Bsieso) and autistic elder brother (Omar Elba). Along with relationship drama with Mo’s on-again, off-again Mexican American girlfriend (Teresa Ruiz) and high jinks with his cast of multicultural friends, the show depicts a family in flux, trying to start an olive-oil business as they seek asylum.
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