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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    The Last O.G. tackles reentry and gentrification with subtlety and hilarity

    Take a break from the ‘Game of Thrones’ frenzy and instead show some love for a somewhat overlooked TBS show called ‘The Last O.G.’ It stars Tracy Morgan in his first regular television role since his serious car accident of a few years ago.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Apr 16, 2019 • 1 min read

    Take a break from the ‘Game of Thrones’ frenzy and instead show some love for a somewhat overlooked TBS show called ‘The Last O.G.’ It stars Tracy Morgan in his first regular television role since his serious car accident of a few years ago. Morgan plays a Brooklyn drug dealer who took the fall for a colleague and served 15 years in prison. The show follows him as he tries to pick up his life again on his now very different, very gentrified, home turf, and tries to reunite with his baby mama, played by Tiffany Haddish.

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    The full episode

    4 of 5
    Composer Ellen Reid on her Pulitzer Prize winning work ‘P r i s m’
    1. 0:00What to make of President Trump’s fundraising numbers
    2. 6:35There are 18 Democrats running for president. Why do new candidates keep throwing their hats in the ring?
    3. 14:10United States is set to break the record of reported measles cases
    4. 23:46The Last O.G. tackles reentry and gentrification with subtlety and hilarityYou’re reading this
    5. 37:56Composer Ellen Reid on her Pulitzer Prize winning work ‘p r i s m’
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