Michael Strassner

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The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.

In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.

Comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen; his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child; and the eldest, Heather, and her husband, Tim, are dreading their impending empty nest so much, they're considering having another baby. Their parents are Joan the family's adoring matriarch who would do anything for her kids - as long as she agrees with it - and John, the gregarious patriarch who's searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70. As the family's lives unfold in four short stories each week, they try to savor these little pieces of time that flash by but stay with you forever, because these moments add up to what life's all about.

A high school teacher in Austin tries to balance the competing demands of the students and their parents in a world where the rules seem to change every day.

A newly sober man's Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.

A wondrous story of the complexities of relationships, friendly and romantic that blurs the lines of expected tropes through random comedy and realistic, interconnected interactions.

When love-addict Lydia (Elizabeth Guest) meets steady and reliable boyfriend Tim (Andrew Leeds), she finally feels she is ready to settle down. But when Tim surprises her with a storybook Christmas-in-New-York proposal, she falls into her old ways, setting the storybook on fire and retreating back to Los Angeles and away from Tim. Heartbroken, Lydia moves in with her parents (yes, all four of them) and tries to pick herself up, but finds bad choices around every corner. In an effort to stop the spiraling, her parents throw a New Year's Eve bash with every eligible bachelor they know. Wooed by everyone at the party, Lydia finds Tim has one more surprise in store. Showing up before the clock strikes midnight, Lydia must wade through this minefield of suitors to prove the one love she is addicted to is Tim’s.

Caroline, moving back to the US after two years abroad with her surprise fiancé Rick, asks her best friend and ex-girlfriend, Amanda, to be her Maid of Honor, forcing them to navigate a wild and hilarious rollercoaster of love and friendship as Amanda tries to win back the love of her life.

A lonely young woman tries to make friends by joining a death cult.

Brooks, a lonely 30 something man seeks to escape the discomforts of daily life by hiring a sex worker for any sort of connection at all.

Single mother Tay leaves behind her complicated life in Los Angeles to return to her childhood home. She winds up embroiled in a custody battle over son Albee, an autistic child obsessed with the ocean but terrified of swimming.

A trio of soon-to-be longtime friends go on a half-serious, half-existential odyssey across New York City to find a sewing needle for a pair of ripped jeans. Across one meandering Tuesday, the men reopen old wounds, fall into unexpected romantic entanglements, and confront whether it’s ever too late to stitch one’s life back together.

While housesitting for a friend, a recently single man must host a beautiful girl who is crashing on the couch for the week.

Father Carl finally gets the chance to perform his first exorcism.

An honest portrayal of a young man figuring out how he wants to live out his romantic and sexual life.

Every 4 years of group of hometown friends get together, catch-up, have a few laughs and take part in a talent show that stems back hundreds of years.

After a failed mission in the Arctic, spies must team up to foil a deadly plot orchestrated by Evelina, an international assassin and head of the world's worst crime syndicate.

When a viral video of Bigfoot emerges, a once popular influencer goes on a mission to film a vlog with Bigfoot and regain her fame.