The It List: A 'Karen' movie on BET, Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker and more pop culture picks for the week
This week on The It List, BET's new movie Karen features Taryn Manning as a racist suburban woman terrorizing her new Black neighbors. Meanwhile, on PBS, American Experience is featuring a new documentary on first female Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and in theatres, The Eyes of Tammy Faye features Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield portraying televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker throughout the decades.
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REPORTER: "The It List" is Yahoo's weekly look at the best in pop culture. Here are our picks for the week of September 13th.
The new BET movie, "Karen" features Cory Hardrict and Jasmine Burke as a nice normal couple moving into a nice normal neighborhood. And Taryn Manning as their racist, suburban neighbor named, wait for it, Karen. Follow along the nightmare as Manning behaves as badly as you'd expect, and her new neighbors do their best to fight back.
- I've come across some very suspecting teenagers.
- Suspecting?
- Can you please hurry up. Please. They're being very aggressive. Yup.
- I left my wallet with my ID at home.
- Leave us alone. We didn't do anything.
REPORTER: PBS American Experience is featuring a new documentary on Sandra Day O'Connor. "Sandra Day O'Connor: The First" focuses on the former Supreme Court justice's early career and on her groundbreaking role as the first woman on the highest court in the land.
- Is the first woman nominated for the Supreme Court too much of a feminist?
- Self-described Moral Majority opposed President Reagan's choice.
- The court's expectation was that, as a woman, she would keep a low profile.
- But she never got the message.
REPORTER: Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield play Tammy Faye and Jim Baker in a new movie about the televangelist couple who rose to fame in the 70s and 80s only to succumb to scandals and fraud charges. "The Eyes Of Tammy Faye" features an at-times unrecognizable Chastain portraying Tammy Faye through the decades, as she rises to the top, falls, and then seeks redemption.
- God loves you. He really does.
- We're not doing anything wrong though.
- Is that a question?
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