Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 15, 2015
Filmmaker Alex Gibney (Going Clear) tells how the FBI could have prevented the 9/11 attacks - if it weren't for the CIA.
LE CAFÉ de BALZAC: Paul Giamatti plays 19th-century French author Honore de Balzac, who drank 50 cups of coffee each day.
UNREALITY STAR: Patients with "The Truman Show delusion" believe their lives are being watched on TV. CARTOON by Roz Chast
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Feb 16, 2016
THE RIDE OF THEIR LIVES: Filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams) profiles two young people in the world's most dangerous sport - bull riding.
BLACK BODIES IN MOTION AND IN PAIN: Writer Edwidge Danticat looks at racist violence in America through art.
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF ATLANTIC CITY: Writer Nick Paumgarten on the closure of the Revel casino. CARTOONS by Roz Chast and Liana Finck.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Feb 16, 2016
WHAT'S MOTIVATING HAYES: Filmmaker Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) profiles biologist Tyrone Hayes. When a pesticide manufacturer hired Hayes to test the effects of their product on frogs, Hayes discovered shocking results.
A SKETCH starring Alan Cumming and Brett Gelman. A CONVERSATION with artist Marina Abramovic.
A POEM written by Matthew Dickman.
CARTOONS by Emily Flake.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Feb 16, 2016
THE MAN WITHOUT A MASK: Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams (God Loves Uganda; Life, Animated) profiles Cassandro, the flamboyant gay star of Mexican wrestling.
SYMBOLS AND FACTS: GUNS, CARS, AND AMERICA: An essay by Adam Gopnik.
BRAZENHEAD, C'EST MOI: Michael Seidenberg operated a secret bookstore in a Manhattan apartment...until he got an eviction notice.
CARTOONS by Roz Chast and Farley Katz.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 23, 2016
WOLVESMOUTH: Filmmaker Lucy Walker (The Crash Reel) profiles renegade chef Craig Thornton.
THE FRIED CHICKEN KING OF HARLEM: Chef Charles Gabriel is an uptown institution.
COUPLE'S FIRST DINNER PARTY, SERVES SIX: Director Janicza Bravo gives us the recipe for a dinner gone wrong.
REINCARNATION: A poem by Ellen Bass.
CARTOONS by Roz Chast & Benjamin Schwartz.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 23, 2016
ROY SPIVEY: An ordinary woman meets a movie star during an airplane flight. Adapted from a short story by Miranda July; starring Murray Bartlett and Allison Price.
LA GLOWS: Writer Lawrence Weschler explores the unique light of Los Angeles.
THE CAGING OF AMERICA: Writer Adam Gopnik takes on the epidemic of mass incarceration in the United States.
CARTOON by Liana Finck.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Mar 1, 2016
LONE STAR NURSE: Filmmaker Dawn Porter (Gideon's Army; Trapped) follows a dedicated nurse working with some of the poorest families in America.
AVANT GARDENER: Acclaimed singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett has a photography show.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPACE: Architect Craig Dykers is redesigning a notoriously dysfunctional location - Times Square.
CARTOONS by Liana Finck and Farley Katz.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Mar 1, 2016
THE HELL RAISER: Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Celluloid Closet) profile apostate preacher Rob Bell.
EUREKA! WITH BASIL TWIST: Meet genius puppeteer Basil Twist.
FRIEND OF BILL: When you least expect it, Bill Murray may appear to you.
LAST SESSION: Charles Grodin and John Turturro play a therapist and a patient who wants to end therapy.
CARTOONS by Liana Finck and Farley Katz.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 8, 2016
THE SILVER THIEF: Filmmakers Chapman Way and Maclain Way (The Battered Bastards of Baseball) profile master thief Blane Nordahl.
UP AND THEN DOWN: Writer Nick Paumgarten explains why life as we know it depends on elevators.
TOM OF FINLAND: The artist called Tom of Finland changed the image of gay men forever. Is his work porn, or is it art?
CARTOONS by Farley Katz and Benjamin Schwartz.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Mar 8, 2016
THE CYCLIST (EL CICLISTA): Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) learns about Cuba by becoming a perp there.
SNOOPS: Welcome to the monthly dinner of the Society of Professional Investigators.
THE BREATH OF THE WORLD: Pulitzer-winning composer John Luther Adams moved from Alaska to New York, but his music still reflects his original surroundings.
CARTOONS by Farley Katz and Benjamin Schwartz.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Mar 15, 2016
PROTECT AND SERVE: Filmmaker Jesse Moss (The Overnighters) examines the Albuquerque Police Department, which has killed 28 civilians since 2010. WHO'S YOUR DADDY: Meet Kenny Burck, the proud father of The Naked Cowboy. NEVER ALONE: The Iñupiat tribe needed a way to preserve their culture and language. So they created a video game. CARTOON by Benjamin Schwartz.
