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Pop Culture Happy Hour

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Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.511.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The HBO Max series Sort Of follows Sabi, played by Bilal Baig, a gender-fluid millennial in Toronto trying to figure their life out. They're the child of Pakistani parents, they've got a loser boyfriend, they work at a queer bookstore/bar and they're a nanny to a troubled professional couple with a couple of troubled kids. It's a slyly innovative show that makes for a great Saturday afternoon binge. The series recently returned for a second season, so we thought it would be a good time to revisit our conversation about the first season.

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The HBO Max series Sordo follows Sebi, a gender-fluid millennial in Toronto trying to figure their

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life out.

0:10.3

And there's a lot to figure out.

0:11.8

They're the child of Pakistani parents, they've got a loser boyfriend, they work in a

0:15.4

queer bookstore slash bar, and they're a nanny to a troubled professional couple with

0:20.0

a couple of troubled kids.

0:21.7

When the mom of that family winds up in a coma, Sebi is torn between living their life

0:25.6

and putting the needs of others before their own.

0:27.8

It is a slightly innovative show, with good word of mouth, it makes for a great Saturday

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afternoon binge.

0:32.8

The series recently returned for a second season, so we thought it would be a good time

0:36.2

to revisit our conversation about the great first season.

0:39.5

I'm Glenn Weldon, and in this encore episode of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we're talking

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about the fantastic television show, Sort Up.

0:53.0

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Joining us today is journalist and co-host of the great podcast, Fantai Treval Anderson.

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Welcome back Treval.

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