John Singleton's 'Snowfall' Season 1 Thread
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Sunalmighty
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This. You're a writer and director and this is the BEST you can do? I'm sick of talking about hood struggles, scandals and street gangs. Make some new shyt. Black science fiction film or something
Word.
If they just HAVE to do a struggle show set in a certain period, then do a good series about the Black Panthers in the 70s, and humanize them like The Sopranos did by making their series more about mundane family shyt than gangster shyt. Show what they were doing with their family and kids, show them opening up businesses and trying to police the community, show them when they were falling in love, and taking care of grandpa, and disagreeing with each other over ideological differences - show what they were about when they weren't being militant.
But yeah, I'd prefer to see something different. A fantasy setting, a sci-fi setting, heck I'd even be down to see something about trying to make it in Hollywood both in front of and behind the camera, similar to La La Land.
But if we watch Narcos that's ok? So is Boardwalk Empire? So is the Get Down. I mean I can go on and on. You want black sci if make it yourself or check Octavia Butler.
Piff Perkins
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I don't get this. The power of television allows you to tell familiar stories differently. The Sopranos isn't a mob show. The Wire isn't a cop show. They transcended their subgenres to create brilliant television that touched on multiple aspects of society. Why can't a black man do the same with what clearly will NOT just be "a drugs/street" show?
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I haven't watched one episode of Narcos or Boardwalk Empire. I haven't even seen one episode of Get Down. The capable black filmmakers and lack of quality ideas is my point. How many times can you talk about crack and where it started, or is that the only thing you niccas would like to see on screen
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I like John Singleton but ima pass on this
Tired of Crack (and drug shyt in general) being associated with black folks
Tired of Crack (and drug shyt in general) being associated with black folks
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a lot of the brehs in here are intellectually lazy at best, or just weak.
Ol’Otis
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not sure yet.......i understand what the other poster are saying about black filmmakers doing the same shyt
but i think they mean we need variety
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A show about a 60's advertising firm. That's it. High ratings and too many Emmy awards to count.
A show about hackers, mental illness and other shyt that doesn't involve busting guns and moving dope. Hottest TV show to come out this year.
It's not impossible to make compelling, quality television that doesn't involve cliched stereotypes. But at the end of the day, it's on the viewers. We need to demand variety and quality. Cats be on some "I'm just happy to be here" shyt when a predominately black show comes out. Power is trash. Empire is trash. Ballers is kinda trash. They're all entertaining, but they're not all that good. I cringe when I see nikkas call them the best shows on TV. The greatest TV show of all time is a predominately black show. Yeah, there was drugs and violence in that show but it's probably the best social study I've seen in the fiction format. Let's have some standards and sooner or later those standards will be met.
Exactly! Do I wish this show was on HBO? Yea...but FX is basically becoming what AMC used to be in terms of having a house for some critically acclaimed shows. And once again this is a show from black creators about black issues with black actors in major roles. How is that not a win?