For two seasons on Showtime, we tried to make a television show that would feel exactly like the radio show. It won three Emmys. More about all that here.
Here are some favorite episodes and stories: Escape and John Smith from Season Two; the Chris Ware cartoons, which you can watch for free online, from Season One and Two; Nancy Updike's beautifully-written story in God's Close-Up; Ira's story of a teenager who doesn't want to fall in love; and Haider Hamza's field trip to meet the Americans who wanted to invade his country, Iraq. And the entire archive is below.
03.27.2007
Three stories of people hatching a plan and believing they've made a dream—big or small—come true. Instead, they're snapped back to reality...
03.29.2007
An exploration of the benefits and costs of stubbornness. If you're a 15-year-old boy, and you don't want to fall in love, maybe you can...
04.05.2007
An artist, his Jesus-model, the model's girlfriend, the girlfriend's father, and a bunch of bearded men all converge in Utah. An elaborate...
04.12.2007
Being behind the camera changes you. It's not just that you see everything differently; you act differently also. This episode features two...
04.19.2007
What do you do if you don't like where you are in life? You simply decide to move forward, into the next stage, by sheer force of will. A...
04.26.2007
Three stories of consequences that follow from human beings' doing what we do best: poking our noses everywhere, fixing things that may or...
05.11.2008
Two foreigners try to make sense of life in the U.S. in the aftermath of two very different wars.
05.18.2008
Stories of people trying to make — and remake — history, while others go down in history in ways they never intended.
06.01.2008
Even the happiest marriage sometimes comes down to the rule of law. And more so for the sad ones.
06.08.2008
We devote this entire episode to the story of one life, told through the lives of seven people all over the country who have one thing in...
09.04.2008
Three stories about stand up comedians. This episode is only available for download on iTunes, not on DVD.
