2023年6月23日

我是一個處女是想象力和意識形態的勝利。回飛棒倒退回亞馬遜的流的初期階段,當深刻的異類透明和愛國者主導傑夫·貝佐斯的石板,創建的靴子Riley係列推出優質視頻明天是振興回到創意的平台和特許經營重小屏幕本身。看,睜開雙眼。死胡同籃球和品牌交易、社會毒性、快餐和更快的移動愛人在突破時尚由華盛頓奧利瓦,詩意的核心節目13-foot-tall虱子,描繪在高聳的時尚Jharrel傑羅姆。領先19歲的奧克蘭本地的確定步驟外界經過多年的被隱藏,當他們看到美國艾美獎得主ups他已經相當大的遊戲展開一個自然主義,在他周圍聚集的魔幻現實主義。相關故事太晚了今年的艾美獎,不管是否儀式發生在9月由於持續的作家協會罷工,我是一個處女座麵臨的挑戰是不記得當第76屆艾美獎在2024年左右。盡管喜劇大獎將深度,這將是一個犯罪忘記這麼大的成功的搖擺,我是一個處女座本身或傑羅姆的表演,華盛頓和兩屆托尼獎提名卡拉瓊斯電源提供。操作的水平,正如預期的那樣從政變主唱萊利,在工作中有很多隱喻在我是處女座。從一個尖角,這是贈送的喬納森•斯威夫特N.K. Jemisin,塞繆爾·貝克特,卡拉沃克和拉爾夫·埃裏森。然而,在一個非常重要的方式,成功地深情和熟練工作,不容錯過。 A Situationist by any other name, Riley has been seeding the long détournement game for years for this very moment and the seven-episode DIY I’m A Virgo. The Sorry to Bother You director, who penned a guest column last month for Deadline on his conflicting personal and professional feelings as a proud guild member about having his TV debut during the WGA labor action, treats the occasion with a seriousness that alludes many more seasoned talents. The goofy gag scenes that populate the charged coming of age narrative once Cootie breaks free of the gilded cage constructed by his Carmen Ejogo and Mike Epps played aunt and uncle come to fruition down the line across generational and economic divides. Like the best of Spike Lee’s canon, the obvious agenda setting scenes prove foundational long after their pedagogic aura has faded. Power outages, self-interested parenting, an unhinged billionaire anti-hero literally called the Hero (played by a delightfully wig wearing Walton Goggins ), friendship, betrayal, comic book fandom, cults, and lovingly awkward sex between Cootie and Washington’s Flora fill I’m A Virgo. Amidst episodes written by Riley, Michael R. Jackson, Tze Chun, Whitney White and Marcus Gardley, the series is also packed with the legacy of Amiri Baraka’s Black Arts Repertory Theatre, social disruption, local politics, an uncomfortable animated series within the series, the business of crime, and capitalist critiques that postulate in another world what a Buster Keaton, Angela Davis, and Preston Sturges collaboration might have looked like. In that sense, ’m A Virgo puts American myth making to a stress test. The result, which never turns away from what it is to be young and Black in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, isn’t flattering to the lies we tell ourselves and the truths most turn away from — whether they are banning books and drag queen shows, attacking trans kids, or the right to vote, or not. Besides a rather stomach-churning ending that screams out for a second season, I’ll just add that the overall combination, among other things, exposes the callow core of the assembly line caped crusaders, spinoffs and revival content that has been keeping the lights on in Hollywood for far too long. To snag a phrase from an early episode, I’m A Virgo isn’t about situationships. This show is about what’s going on. It’s about how in America, as Jones tells Hero towards the end of the season, “the paper is a placeholder for the violence.” Sit with that, with both eyes open.