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High Off The Hog is a great watch.
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Been watching “StartUp” for the past week and the premise is good. Hell season 1 was very entertaining television
After that…while going through season 2, you can tell the writers had no plan and were just making up shyt on the fly just to push along the plot. It was still entertaining but it started going all over the place.
One plot point in particular..
Near the end of season 1 when Nick and Izzy randomly start fukking after an argument after giving NO clues that they were into each other. Then after that the show didn’t even BOTHER to acknowledge it. And then in season 2 they lowkey retcon it and have Nick get with his investors daughter and Izzy became a lesbian.
i know the show dropped in 2017 and went for 3 years. But you can tell the show was struggling for an identity. It’s like “The Social Network” meets “Snowfall,” “Queen Of The South,” and a little bit of “Ozark.”
Researched the status of the series and it seems like it’s in limbo. They didn’t cancel or renew the show. But with Netflix picking it up and it becoming popular again, I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes back next year for season 4.
Would be interesting how it would go since it’s been gone for 2 years.
I'm half way through S2. Show is 'OK', but I'm surprised nobody seems to be offended by the character of Ronnie. He seems right on the line (and sometimes over the line) of an 80's "street smart genius gangster from the ghetto" character. He just doesn't seem like a real person to me.
I think part of it is that I'm from Queens, and the Hatian people from there couldn't be more different. I can't possibly imagine that there is anyone equivalent to him in mid 2010's Miami.
I think thats what i like about him tho in all seriousness.
He knows what he is.
And from JUMP he KNOWS what they want from him.
And he does not let down.
That shyt was fireJupiter’s Legacy might be dope
High on The Hog (Netflix)
Great documentary about african diaspora food, watch it if yall can
Great documentary about african diaspora food, watch it if yall can
I’m from Queens too- Miami is a totally different culture than New York. I disagree- he comes off as authentic to me.
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That shyt was fire
I'll peep it.
Edi Gathegi actually had a Haitian homie that coached him for his first movie role. He might be the go to for Haitian characters because I think this is his fourth role as a zoe.
As for his authenticity...
his short lived role as a Haitian criminal in Justified seemed to be his best. I was raised a bit in Brooklyn but been in Florida since my teens to now (St. Pete and Orlando). I got Haitian fam in Miami but I've never been there long enough to know the culture. I just assumed a lot of them are like Choppa Zoe. 
TheDarkskinnedDrake
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High on the hog was great
aXiom
Maximized Potential
I might fukk with this..Unauthorized Living was some Spanish piff
Spain don’t miss
had me in my feelings
What’s the consensus on Who Killed Sara? Netflix shilling that shyt hard.
Figaro
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Finding Ohana
I'm definitely watching this as I'm a sucker for food & travel shows. "Somebody Feed Phil" filled in nicely after Anthony Bourdain passed(RIP)
I watched the first season of who killed Sara a couple of weeks ago
lots of
moments it wasn’t bad, but I wouldn’t say it’s great. The second season just dropped and for some reason I couldn’t remember anything so I switched to finishing Gomorrah season 2 on hbo
If you want to watch some Spanish piff, you should watch the innocent on Netflix, lots of us here fukked with it
KalKal
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Edi Gathegi actually had a Haitian homie that coached him for his first movie role. He might be the go to for Haitian characters because I think this is his fourth role as a zoe.
As for his authenticity...
Its just kind of hard for me to believe that in 2016 Miami there's someone playing "ethnic Warlord" to an entire neighborhood. Not like a gangster or a kingpin, or a Nino Brown in a small area... but a literal warlord "running the whole neighborhood". Does that happen anywhere except in pre-1990's stories?
And that he can also transfer his "street smarts" directly into the corporate world like Eddie Murphy in Trading Places.