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Perry, 40, is best known for seriocomic indie films such as “Listen Up Philip” and “Her Smell.”

Her most recent book, “Colored Television,” is a seriocomic exploration of race and creativity and the haves and have-nots of Hollywood.

Debt is a theme running through Season 5 of “Fargo,” and there was no more terrifying bill collector in Noah Hawley’s latest seriocomic venture into the dark whiteout of the Upper Midwest than Ole Munch.

In a cultural landscape of darkly seriocomic prestige series like "Succession" and "The Bear," Rose Byrne is happy to just take a pratfall.

More of a recognition reel for a fan convention than a movie, it signals a career that’s traveled far from its first evocation of a raw seriocomic intelligence about small-to-bursting lives.