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It’s sometimes forgotten that Romeo and Juliet was ultimately a tragedy.

A week after the Season 5 premiere, where Oa went to great lengths to handle a bombing, the FBI team had to deal with a robbery involving a pair of young lovers.

However, these two kids from opposite worlds were in way over their heads, leading to murder and a tragic end.

This coincided with Scola and Nina facing some unique turns in their own relationship that played into the case.

That climaxed with Nina making a hard decision that left her shaken up afterward.

This all made Love Is Blind a powerful episode showing how romance can have a dark ending.

A cop killing gets the team going

On the street, a man pulled up before a pawn shop, adjusting his coat where a gun was hidden.

In its first season, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens performed very well in the ratings for Comedy Central and was reportedly the top new cable comedy last year. Will viewership grow in year two? Will Awkwafina is Nora from Queens be cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned. *Status update below.

A scripted comedy series, the Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens TV show was created by Awkwafina and Teresa Hsiao. The cast includes Nora Lum (aka Awkwafina), Lori Tan Chinn, Bd Wong, Bowen Yang, Gabo Augustine, Michelle Buteau, Jennifer Esposito, Chrissie Fit, Jonathan 'Dumbfoundead' Park, Jaboukie Young White, Wai Ching Ho, and Liang Ying He. Guests in season two include Margaret Cho, Alan Kim, Lauren Ash, Alex Borstein, Ross Butler, Cindy Cheung, Catherine Cohen, Catherine Curtin, Nancy Eng, Fortune Feimster, Chloe Fineman, Judy Gold, Stephanie Hsu, Kerri Kenney-Silver, C.S. Lee, Fay Ann Lee,...

Nora's misadventures will continue. Comedy Central has renewed the Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens series for a third season. The second season finished airing in October.

A scripted comedy series, the Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens TV show was created by Awkwafina and Teresa Hsiao. The cast includes Nora Lum aka Awkwafina, Lori Tan Chinn, Bd Wong, Bowen Yang, Gabo Augustine, Michelle Buteau, Jennifer Esposito, Chrissie Fit, Jonathan 'Dumbfoundead' Park, Jaboukie Young White, Wai Ching Ho, and Liang Ying He. Guests in season two include Margaret Cho, Alan Kim, Lauren Ash, Alex Borstein, Ross Butler, Cindy Cheung, Catherine Cohen, Catherine Curtin, Nancy Eng, Fortune Feimster, Chloe Fineman, Judy Gold, Stephanie Hsu, Kerri Kenney-Silver, C.S. Lee, Fay Ann Lee, Ajay Mehta, Aaron Takahashi, and Jade Wu. The story is loosely based on the real-life of actress and comedian Nora Lum,...

Comedy Central released a trailer for Season 2 of “Awkwafina is Nora From Queens,” premiering on Aug. 18.

Starring Awkwafina, Bowen Yang, Bd Wong and Lori Tan Chinn, the new season follows Nora (Awkwafina) as she navigates young adulthood in outer-borough New York City.

Joining them this season are guest stars Margaret Cho, Alan Kim, Lauren Ash, Alex Borstein, Ross Butler, Cindy Cheung, Catherine Cohen, Catherine Curtin, Fortune Feimster, Chloe Fineman, Judy Gold, Stephanie Hsu, Kerri Kenney-Silver, C.S. Lee, Ajay Mehta, Haley Joel Osment, Aaron Takahashi and Jade Wu.

In the trailer, Nora gives advice to her cousin (Yang), works at a CBD store and falls asleep at the wheel.

Gabo Augustine, Michelle Buteau, Jennifer Esposito, Chrissie Fit, Jonathan ‘Dumbfoundead’ Park, Jaboukie Young White, Wai Ching Ho, Bea Soong, Nancy Eng, Liang Ying He and Fay Ann Lee reprise their roles from Season 1.

Watch the trailer below.

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In a climate where female directors are the exceptions that prove the rule, Asian-American filmmaker Fay Ann Lee is quite the standout. Lee wrote, directed, starred in, produced, and distributed Falling for Grace, winning audiences' hearts and defying Hollywood's expectations in the process. Now, since its successful Tribeca debut in 2006 and an unprecedented, invitation-only 15-city tour, the little indie that could is finally coming home. Lee, a Broadway actress with both Sondheim and Shakespeare credits to her name, wrote Falling for Grace (originally East Broadway) as a proactive response to the lack of good roles for Asian-American actors. Her script placed in several prestigious competitions, including the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project and the Nicholl Fellowship, at which point Hollywood producers began to show interest. But they wouldn't buy it unless she changed one thing: the main character's ethnicity, from Asian American to white or Hispanic. Lee decided to preserve her...

This week sees the release of a few Academy Award nominees and winners, some new tv shows and some movies coming to Blu-ray for the first time. Among the ones we’re most interested in this week are Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire, The Boondock Saints II, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Commish and Up in the Air (with George Clooney and Anna Kendrick, pictured above.)

Check them out:

Movies

Capitalism: A Love Story (Blu-ray and DVD)

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit And The Pendulum ~ Lorielle New, Stephen Hansen, Bart Voitila (Blu-ray and DVD)

Falling for Grace ~ Gale Harold, Fay Ann Lee, Billy Asher (Blu-ray and DVD)

Hachi: A Dog’s Tale ~ Richard Gere, Joan Allen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Blu-ray and DVD)

Nine Dead ~ Melissa Joan Hart, John Terry, Lawrence Turner (Blu-ray and DVD)

Old Dogs ~ John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Robin Williams, Seth Green (Blu-ray and DVD)

Paris ~ Juliette Binoche,...