Houston's Mo Amer is the New Charlie Chaplin

— And That’s Exactly Why Power Doesn’t Know What to Do with Him

Mo Amer (right) with his onscreen family in his Netflix series, MO.

Mo Amer’s scripted Netflix series Mo isn’t just a show about a Palestinian refugee living in Houston. It’s a document — a living record of what it means to survive in the underbelly of empire. It is the story of the millions of people whose labor keeps the machinery moving, even as they …