In the current climate, for both media and politics, we're oversaturated. We're at peak TV, peak reboots, peak outrage, and peak fatigue towards having to stay active, alert, and woke.*
Under the circumstances, it's tough work for a television show to not feel like excess; why here, and why now? Spike Lee may not Have planned for his updated She's Gotta Have It – a black and white movie from the '80s that's now a vivacious and colorful Netflix show – to release into that landscape, but the series thrives on adversity. Born into a perfect storm of sociopolitical context, She's Gotta Have It is more than its circumstances or the sum of its parts; it's just good. Read more...