Up To Speed

2012
3.1
16 reviews
TV-14
Rating
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Season 1 episodes (6)

1 San Francisco: A City Shaped by Earthquakes
8/9/12
Speed takes us on a tour of renowned objects in San Francisco -- a city shaped by earthquakes that makes a point of attacking the status quo and appreciating the beauty in the unexpected.
2 Chicago: To Conjure a Lost Neighborhood
8/16/12
Speed spends a day steeped in the history of working class Chicago -- a city of blue collar labor constantly fighting back against the status quo of their corporate overlords.
3 Kansas & Missouri: In the Middle of the Middle of the Midwest
8/23/12
Speed explores the idea of borders and boundaries in Lawrence, Kansas -- a city straddling the line between opposing sides during the American Civil War.
4 Virginia: The Many Flavors of Thomas Jefferson
8/30/12
Speed sifts through the many flavors of Thomas Jefferson in Monticello and the University of Virginia -- two historic landmarks representing the many sides of America's most complicated founding father.
5 New York City: The Beauty of Randomness
9/5/12
Speed wanders through the chaos of New York City -- a metropolitan hub teeming with simultaneous bouts of randomness and synchronicity.
6 The Tour Guide Convention
9/13/12
Speed goes on adventures with other tour guides across the country.

About this show

Filmmaker Richard Linklater, best known for his movies "Bernie," "School of Rock," "Waking Life," and Oscar-nominated "Before Sunset," has created a new historical travel show for Hulu called "Up to Speed." Each week, "Up to Speed" follows tour guide, historian and flaneur Timothy "Speed" Levitch ("The Cruise") as he visits the monumentally ignored monuments of America's cities, from the shoe gardens of San Francisco to the luckiest subway grate in New York City.

Ratings and reviews

3.1
16 reviews
Thomas Evans
August 23, 2022
Terrible, bad history, annoying host. Episode 3 is especially egregious in its butchering of pre-civil war “Bleeding Kansas” history
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Harley Steiner
June 25, 2016
It is not free
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Eunice West
July 18, 2016
By kalayah Robinson player.
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