The first season of “This Is California,” from The Los Angeles Times and Futuro Studios, tells the story of the 1994 anti-immigrant ballot initiative that rocked the state and, it argues, set the stage for California becoming a “resistance” state and Trump becoming president. Gustavo Arellano, the host, layers his reporting with his own experiences as the son, friend and employee of American immigrants. His recounting of his experience of xenophobic high school bullying during the battle of Proposition 187 grounds this statewide story in the lived experience of the Americans labeled “illegal” and “undocumented.”

“Smartr” is either a parody or a dystopia set five minutes in the future, depending on your perspective. In this version of the United States, created by Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco for the subscription-based Luminary, the revolution against start-up culture has come, and the insurgents have brought bombs. But the show’s host, a self-proclaimed “victimized” venture capitalist, doesn’t seem too concerned by the attempts on his life. Instead he’s using his podcast as a sort of “Shark Tank” for wannabe tech founders, played by comedic guests like Tim Heidecker and Mamrie Hart. Each episode features a new pitch for an app that shockingly similar to the products coming out of Silicon Valley. (One start-up pitches Autonews, a computer-generated headline app that uses algorithms to construct what people want to see.) Insulated by their exorbitant wealth, the Silicon Valley protagonists seem just mildly perturbed that the proletariat is up in arms over invasions of privacy, manipulative algorithms and underpaying gig jobs. The result is a comic critique of a ruling tech class, and a warning of the inevitable revolt.

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