Up to Speed(2012)

8.0
1 Seasons
ComedyRealityDocumentary

"A licensed tour guide. Kind of."

Overview

Tour guide, historian and flaneur "Speed" Levitch travels the nation visiting those monuments that rarely make it into travel guides, from the shoe gardens of San Francisco to the luckiest subway grate in New York City.

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Ep 1

San Francisco: A City Shaped by Earthquakes

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.

09/08/201224 min
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Ep 2

Chicago: To Conjure a Lost Neighborhood

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.

16/08/201224 min
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Ep 3

Kansas & Missouri: In the Middle of the Middle of the Midwest

Speed explores the idea of borders and boundaries in Lawrence, Kansas – a city straddling the line between opposing sides during the American Civil War.

23/08/201224 min
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Ep 4

Virginia: The Many Flavors of Thomas Jefferson

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.

30/08/201224 min
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Ep 5

New York City: The Beauty of Randomness

Speed wanders through the chaos of New York City – a metropolitan hub teeming with simultaneous bouts of randomness and synchronicity.

05/09/201224 min
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Ep 6

The Tour Guide Convention

Speed goes on adventures with other tour guides across the country.

13/09/201224 min

Show Info

StatusEnded
NetworkHulu
TypeMiniseries