Summary: The Ultra City Smiths story unfolds via the stop-motion animation of baby dolls repurposed as a grown-up cast of characters. The series hinges on an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of fictional metropolis Ultra City's most famous magnate. Two intrepid detectives follow the case, rallying to fight against their city's dangerous corruption, at a high cost to themselves and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ULTSummary: Celebrates the mundane in what should be a high-stakes operation. Season two finds us back in Car 27 with SDPD detectives Cullen and Tolbeck as they stake out the seedy underbelly of a cockfighting ring. Meanwhile, the SDPD is rocked by a massive corruption scandal, and the culprit might be close to home. Patrick Brammall and Tim Meadows reprise their roles as Detectives Cullen and Tolbeck and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NOSummary: A young doctor feels stuck in a system which can seem like it's against him as he faces 97-hour weeks, life-and-death decisions, and so much gore all for a wage that barely pays for his parking meter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: BoJack Horseman is a television star who peaked early and is trying to figure out what to do with his life now. Partying with Mr. Peanutbutter, saddled with a lazy roommate, and always trying to keep his on-and-off girlfriend happy, the rich but unfulfilled Horseman drifts through each day facing the challenges of modern life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOJSummary: Joy Morris is back! She's found herself and been reborn. Her new vlog channel is smashing the patriarchy, and of course that subscribe button, all in the continued search for happiness. Sure, her viewer figures could be better, and maybe her sponsors could be sexier, but Joy has got this. Yep, this time she's got it all under control. Kind of.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FINSummary: Literature professor Harriet 'Harry' Wild is adjusting to retirement when she's mugged. While recovering at the home of her son, a detective in the Dublin police, Harry gleans a clue for his current case. But when she's rebuffed, Harry decides to solve the crime herself. Recruiting an unlikely young sidekick, she finds a new path as a private investigator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As a kid, Todd wanted nothing more than to be a private detective. Now that he is, he's quite good at it. The rest of his directionless life? That's a bit of a mystery, especially to his uber-successful lawyer mom. So when she offers him a job as an in-house investigator at her firm as a way for him to get his act together, he reluctantly agrees, as long as Mom promises to let her adult son be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SO1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Natasha Lyonne returns to the Emmy-nominated, time-warping Netflix comedy series. Set four years after Nadia (Lyonne) and Alan (Charlie Barnett) escaped mortality's time loop together, Season Two of Russian Doll will continue to explore existential thematics through an often humorous and sci-fi lens. Discovering a fate even worse than endless death, this season finds Nadia and Alan delving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RUSSummary: The new season finds Abby, a 40-something-year-old self-identified fat, queer dyke, in the wake of a breakup. She begrudgingly accepts the realization that she's too busy to kill herself, and in fact she's just starting to get her head above water... when a global pandemic converges with a family emergency and forces Abby into uncharted territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022