A slightly messy 10 x 25m series for FX in which we vaguely follow the management of rapper 'Paper Boi' Brian Tyree Henry by his cousin Earn, Donald Glover, but the series takes pot shots at whatever it wants and tangents accordingly - thus we have long stretch with Earn waiting in detention while they process his paperwork, or where he and girlfriend attend a posh Juneteenth which has been totally misappropriated by the white head of the household (notice also the hostility of the black barman), or exposing the shallowness of the nightclub experience. Writing is often on an absurdist level (e.g. invisible car, fake ads) but when it wants to drop in some powerful random violence or shit it doesn't flinch from doing so.
Great to see how their careers took off. Henry has been in Widows, If Beale Street Could Talk, Joker, The Woman in the Window; Lakeith Stanfield's appeared in Get Out, Sorry to Bother You, Knives Out, Judas and the Black Messiah.
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