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Nice Try!

Nice Try's second season, Interior, is all about the lifestyle products that have been sold to us over and over, and the promises of domestic self improvement they have made, kept and broken.From Curb... Read more

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The Keeper

The Keeper

On this season of Nice Try, we’ve asked why we bring certain goods into our homes. What kinds of utopia they promise, an... Read more

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The bathroom is our most private room in our private homes, devoted to our most private business. And the American bathr... Read more

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