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A documentary series that looks to explore the big questions of today.

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[narrator]
You know these iconic moments in music. - Explained

[narrator] You know these iconic moments in music.

[Rachel McAdams] The pay gap between men
and women around the world - Explained

[Rachel McAdams] The pay gap between men and women around th...

[narrator] Fifty years ago, - Explained

[narrator] Fifty years ago,

From virtually the moment we're born, - Explained

From virtually the moment we're born,

[female narrator] Getting off, coming, - Explained

[female narrator] Getting off, coming,

Jimi Hendrix playing
"The Star Spangled Banner." - Explained

Jimi Hendrix playing "The Star Spangled Banner."

[narrator] They thought it might be
an alien transmission, - Explained

[narrator] They thought it might be an alien transmission,

Here's one you might not know. - Explained

Here's one you might not know.

As an adult, we're forced to reconcile
the messaging on monogamy - Explained

As an adult, we're forced to reconcile the messaging on...

[grunts[ - Explained

That is such an accelerator
in eradicating poverty. - Explained

That is such an accelerator in eradicating poverty.

[reporter] Korean pop culture that's
sweeping Asia is now taking hold here. - Explained

[reporter] Korean pop culture that's sweeping Asia is n...

[McAdams]
When someone mentions the pay gap, - Explained

[McAdams] When someone mentions the pay gap,

[narrator] Even though women have
all of these possibilities for pleasure, - Explained

[narrator] Even though women have all of these possibilities...

In 2016, 2.2 million U.S. couples
got married, - Explained

In 2016, 2.2 million U.S. couples got married,

[Ellen DeGeneres] It's like when they got
to LAX, it was like The Beatles were here. - Explained

[Ellen DeGeneres] It's like when they got to LAX, it wa...

[McAdams] It makes it sound
like women are paid less - Explained

[McAdams] It makes it sound like women are paid less

This is a center for the distribution
of information - Explained

This is a center for the distribution of information

[narrator] But time and again, - Explained

[narrator] But time and again,

So here's a question. - Explained

So here's a question.

[narrator] As recently as 2016, - Explained

[narrator] As recently as 2016,

[reporter] A beautiful shot
of the new royal couple. - Explained

[reporter] A beautiful shot of the new royal couple.

Women aren't looking for a leg up.
They want equal opportunity - Explained

Women aren't looking for a leg up. They want equal oppo...

Masturbation is a part of human sexuality. - Explained

Masturbation is a part of human sexuality.

[reporters] The crime was to have
conceived a child with a married neighbor. - Explained

[reporters] The crime was to have conceived a child with a m...

Women have to take the responsibility
for their own sexual satisfaction. - Explained

Women have to take the responsibility for their own sexual s...

Everyone who saw the show
was shocked - Explained

Everyone who saw the show was shocked

[McAdams]
So, if it's not all about discrimination, - Explained

[McAdams] So, if it's not all about discrimination,

[woman] It's called the finger and thumb. - Explained

[woman] It's called the finger and thumb.

The reason that we think
that they're out there is simply, if not, - Explained

The reason that we think that they're out there is simp...

To understand why
this performance was so shocking, - Explained

To understand why this performance was so shocking,

It goes so quickly sometimes - Explained

It goes so quickly sometimes

[narrator] For most scientists
who study the universe, - Explained

[narrator] For most scientists who study the universe,

If you ask couples
why they chose monogamy, - Explained

If you ask couples why they chose monogamy,

It was a patriotic anthem
wrapped in an '80s pop song. - Explained

It was a patriotic anthem wrapped in an '80s pop song.

[narrator] This is your brain. - Explained

[narrator] This is your brain.

[man] I see
some really advanced clerical work. - Explained

[man] I see some really advanced clerical work.

I'd hear the song - Explained

I'd hear the song

[woman] This is our time to stand up
to have our voices heard. - Explained

[woman] This is our time to stand up to have our voices hear...

[man] Oh, my gosh, look at that thing.
It's resting! - Explained

[man] Oh, my gosh, look at that thing. It's resting!

The reason he heard this song all the time
was because it was a "healthy song," - Explained

The reason he heard this song all the time was because it wa...

[McAdams] The story in the United States
is similar to a lot of countries. - Explained

[McAdams] The story in the United States is similar to a lot...

We had a study date one night - Explained

We had a study date one night

They all look fabulously ugly. - Explained

They all look fabulously ugly.

[narrator] During orgasm, the male
and female brain are pretty much the same. - Explained

[narrator] During orgasm, the male and female brain are pret...

[narrator] The male brain experiences
what's called a refractory period... - Explained

[narrator] The male brain experiences what's called a r...

The brain is equally responsive,
even possibly more responsive, - Explained

The brain is equally responsive, even possibly more responsi...

[narrator] Which is why women
can have multiple orgasms in a row. - Explained

[narrator] Which is why women can have multiple orgasms in a...

But monogamy and love
aren't the same thing. - Explained

But monogamy and love aren't the same thing.

Back then, we only had
three broadcast agencies, - Explained

Back then, we only had three broadcast agencies,

The only women that I saw
in professional roles were teachers. - Explained

The only women that I saw in professional roles were teacher...

Seo Taiji & Boys' television debut
in the spring of 1992 - Explained

Seo Taiji & Boys' television debut in the sprin...

Love is a feeling. Monogamy is a rule. - Explained

Love is a feeling. Monogamy is a rule.

[narrator] So what does it
actually feel like? - Explained

[narrator] So what does it actually feel like?

It filled my mouth, even though
nothing was happening with my mouth. - Explained

It filled my mouth, even though nothing was happening with m...

[woman] It starts at my fingertips
and the top of my head, - Explained

[woman] It starts at my fingertips and the top of my head,

[McAdams]
Discrimination was also totally legal, - Explained

[McAdams] Discrimination was also totally legal,

Seo Taiji & Boys rapped,
they wore baggy pants, - Explained

Seo Taiji & Boys rapped, they wore baggy pants,

[woman] You know when you close your eyes
and it's black but also all the colors? - Explained

[woman] You know when you close your eyes and it's blac...

I couldn't have even imagined
women engineers. - Explained

I couldn't have even imagined women engineers.

Right before a roller coaster goes down,
that feeling when you're lifting. - Explained

Right before a roller coaster goes down, that feeling when y...

And with just those beeps,
we can say anything, - Explained

And with just those beeps, we can say anything,

Most human beings have ambivalent impulses - Explained

Most human beings have ambivalent impulses

[McAdams] The pay gap hovered
around 60 cents on the dollar. - Explained

[McAdams] The pay gap hovered around 60 cents on the dollar.

The adults did not look at it
in a positive light. - Explained

The adults did not look at it in a positive light.

Instead of, like plunging down, - Explained

Instead of, like plunging down,

You can equally well think
of every letter - Explained

You can equally well think of every letter

In fact,
newspapers started describing them - Explained

In fact, newspapers started describing them

Why would humans
all around the world invent a rule - Explained

Why would humans all around the world invent a rule

Each one or zero
is a binary digit or "Bit." - Explained

Each one or zero is a binary digit or "Bit."

Water is flowing into me and out of me. - Explained

Water is flowing into me and out of me.

I think they introduced
American hip-hop fashion to Korea. - Explained

I think they introduced American hip-hop fashion to Korea.

Huge chicken breasts,
it's just this monster, - Explained

Huge chicken breasts, it's just this monster,

Remnants of ships from that era
litter the ocean floor today. - Explained

Remnants of ships from that era litter the ocean floor today...

And in 1996, a particularly
exciting one was discovered - Explained

And in 1996, a particularly exciting one was discovered

Like Morse code's dots and dashes
are just a way to write down - Explained

Like Morse code's dots and dashes are just a way to wri...

The two viruses couldn't
infect each other's species, - Explained

The two viruses couldn't infect each other's spec...

Chickens today grow
four to five times bigger - Explained

Chickens today grow four to five times bigger

My eyes are closed
and I saw the Virgin Mary. - Explained

My eyes are closed and I saw the Virgin Mary.

Thanks to them, what we consider normal
within popular culture in Korea expanded. - Explained

Thanks to them, what we consider normal within popular cultu...

And in one pig cell,
those two viruses combined, - Explained

And in one pig cell, those two viruses combined,

[narrator] We've also discovered
life on Earth - Explained

[narrator] We've also discovered life on Earth

Blackbeard's flagship,
the Queen Anne's Revenge, - Explained

Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge,

[man] The battle cry
of the women's liberation movement - Explained

[man] The battle cry of the women's liberation movement

When you look at that chicken, - Explained

When you look at that chicken,

These parts from the human virus
gave it the ability to infect humans, - Explained

These parts from the human virus gave it the ability to infe...

Take their 1995 classic "Come Back Home"
about teenage runaways. - Explained

Take their 1995 classic "Come Back Home" about tee...

Computers only understand electricity, - Explained

Computers only understand electricity,

The standard narrative
is the story that everybody knows. That men want to be free sexually and
spread their seed around the world - Explained

The standard narrative is the story that everybody knows. Th...

Right before a plane takes off,
you're on the runway. - Explained

Right before a plane takes off, you're on the runway.

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A documentary series that looks to explore the big questions of today.

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Director: N/A

Writer: Joe Posner, Ezra Klein

Production: Amicus Productions

Genre: documentary

Year: 2018

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ImdbRating: 8.0

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Released: 23 May 2018

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