AMERICAN SELFIE: ONE NATION SHOOTS ITSELF
Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET
Actually, it’s Alexandra Pelosi doing most of the shooting here, traveling across America for a 12-month period that just ended weeks ago. The filmmaking daughter of Nancy Pelosi, in this documentary, points her cameras at people taking pictures with their selfies – but also interviews people, on both sides of this country’s gaping political and cultural chasm, to discuss what they think and feel, and why they do. And the places she visits, during her real-long travelogue, aren’t exactly the usual tourist attractions. One scene is shot in Minneapolis, at the place where George Floyd died. Another is at a makeshift morgue in New York City, at the height of the first wave of COVID-19 deaths.