Obscure building blocks

A seventies-looking news broadcast sets up several "Mr. Show" (1995) clips for the upcoming season. Only these newscasters aren't the professionals that they should be, and eventually reveal that what you have been watching probably wasn't what you thought it was.

The problems faced by both teenagers and adults in a small Minnesota town who are trying to get dates for a Saturday night.

Chicago singles meet in a bar, live together and call it love. Based on David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago.

An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord.

In a distant future, egalitarianism has created a truly equal state. The cost? The sacrifice of everything great about humankind. The question: is peace worth the price?