List of episodes of the series «Pretend It's a City»

Pretend It's a City

• User score: 8
• Episode number: 1
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Meet Fran Lebowitz and join her on her rambles as she muses about deadly distractions, Times Square terror, subway stoppers and total building fails.

Cultural Affairs

• User score: 8
• Episode number: 2
• Episode duration: 32 min.
• Episode description:
  The mysteries of talent are scrutinized as Fran looks at the peril of writing, the joy of Motown and the time Charles Mingus chased her on the street.

Metropolitan Transit

• User score: 8.2
• Episode number: 3
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Mean cabbies, arty subway stations, interstellar tourism and spacey bus drivers can get Fran going. Then Leonardo DiCaprio offered her an e-cigarette.

Board of Estimate

• User score: 8
• Episode number: 4
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  It's a living: Fran hates money but loves things, so she must work — though she prefers to read. Winning the lottery may be her only other option.

Department of Sports & Health

• User score: 8
• Episode number: 5
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Knowing that some are annoyed that she's still alive, Fran understands that smoking is bad for you. "Wellness" and sports sound even worse to her.

Hall of Records

• User score: 7.8
• Episode number: 6
• Episode duration: 26 min.
• Episode description:
  Fran's all about fun — guilty pleasures, not so much. Just give her a party, a movie, a small child or a luminous Cary Grant. You can keep technology.

Library Services

• User score: 8.3
• Episode number: 7
• Episode duration: 31 min.
• Episode description:
  Books opened up the world to young Fran. Today, she can't throw a volume away — but she will trash the writer of a glowing blurb for a lousy tome.