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Phetha and Kuntha dissect shows with an intersectional, feminist, womanist, blackist, doing-too-muchist lens and ask where - and how - are the black women on our screens.
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Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
A round up... well, round about of what we fux'd with this year.
Clap for us, we appropriated the cool lingo of the kids today, yay!
Merry merry you Black Stars!
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Friday Dec 09, 2022
What happened to theme music? We sure do miss a good old title track. The famous era of UPN sitcoms like Moesha, Girlfriends, Fresh Prince (you know, the ones we're always carryin' on about) gave us jingly bops, but we also talk stylistics and the many devices that add value to screen play.
Lez gow!
Listen. To. Us.
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Phrases like "melting pot" and "multicultural" have been used (to death) to describe our entertainment industry. The way we watch TV has changed, but has it changed along with the first world? Does it even need to? Is it even all that deep?
Listen. To. Us.
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Gather around now children, it's a teaching moment. Starring the hilarious, laugh out loud cast of ABC's Primetime Emmy Award winner, Abbott Elementary, it's our first peep into mockumentary as genre. Created by Quinta Brunson. What a stand up, stand out cast!
Listen. To. Us.
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
One thing about that Issa, Miss Rae... she's a giver. Back with another fighter. HBO original RapSh!t transports us to the black side of Miami where palm trees meet a hustling-ass reality for Mia, Shauna, Chastity and the girls.
Seduce, schemers!
#Issa #RapShit
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Bazalwane, our journey today brings us to the end, to endings. But also to beginnings.
"We spend the rest of our lives looking back, trying to be back in time." -Jack Pearson
This Is Us, it's a wrap. When did you not cry?
Listen. To. Us.
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Show runner and #Girlfriends creator Mara Brock Akil is a black woman as well as a writer, which means we're already on the same winning team. But, even as we look up to her, we take a look at the comrade's body of work and ask Mara why? and other bad puns.
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Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Rotten Tomatoes calls Run The World (Starz) a series about black women striving for world domination but wethinks Beyonce left out the part about how tricky it is for us to get in formation!
Okay enough. Listen. To. Us.
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Rebooting the eighties and nineties is a tall ask. But when you replace boots with imagination, Fresh Prince spin off Bel Air is what you get. Lez diggy in!
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Another two-parter, in this episode we take a closer look at the new wife and the politics of the matriarch. What does it really mean to be a wife in this very South Africa context? It's a long story ya'll.
Ziyakhala more!
#TheWifeShowmax #Hlomu