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Playing a religious character without making faith the punchline

NPR

By Rachel Martin

Published May 28, 2023 at 6:00 AM EDT

There was something revelatory about the way the HBO show Somebody Somewhere gently hold the spiritual identity of one of its characters. It wasn't a punchline.

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