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| OWN | Season Premiere Date: August 14, 2019 |
Summary:
14-year-old David (Akili McDowell) attends a magnet school for academically gifted kids and must decide whether to take advantage of that opportunity or become the local drug dealer at the South Florida projects in this drama series inspired by the life of series creator and co-writer by Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Genre(s):
Drama
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Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E10. 3 Sons' Sky
Air Date: October 16, 2019
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S1:E9. Some I Love Who Are Dead
Air Date: October 9, 2019
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S1:E8. Bubble House
Air Date: October 2, 2019
IndieWire
Mar 11, 2019
David Makes Man feels like a show that can grow into itself nicely, finding exactly what it wants to show the audience and what it knows it doesn’t need to as it goes along. But right from the start, there’s a distinct rhythm that’ll hook you; a tonal confidence that’s as rhapsodic as it can be calm.
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Sep 4, 2019
In the end, this show may wind up going the way of Rectify, an almost pure form of character drama in which storylines take a backseat to the sheer pleasure of watching a human being evolve before one’s eyes, as David Young does on David Makes Man. Either way, I know I'll be watching.
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Aug 13, 2019
TV Guide Magazine
Aug 16, 2019
Coming-of-age tales are nothing new, but few have the authenticity and poignant power of David's. [19 Aug - 1 Sep 2019, p.13]
Aug 13, 2019
The show endows its hero with a complex internal life. ... It’s impossible to predict, based on the five languidly paced episodes sent to critics, where the show will end up–but McCraney seems too invested in the people around David to leave them behind. Even as it immerses us in his subjectivity, David Makes Man builds vivid, sympathetic supporting characters.
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Mar 11, 2019
David Makes Man is hard to quantify as an ongoing TV series working in a superficially familiar genre, but it's easy to tell that its poignant humanism, a potent mixture of gritty clarity and a dreamlike nostalgia for childhood and the past, is something distinctive. ... The pilot, written by McCraney and directed by Michael Francis Williams, is half-theater, half-indie movie and feels most cumbersome when any sort of plot is inserted.
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 2
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Season 2 Overview
Air Date: June 22, 2021
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Season 2 Overview
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: August 14, 2019
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S1:E10. 3 Sons' Sky
Air Date: October 16, 2019
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S1:E9. Some I Love Who Are Dead
Air Date: October 9, 2019
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S1:E8. Bubble House
Air Date: October 2, 2019
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S1:E7. Son of Man
Air Date: September 25, 2019
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S1:E6. When It All Falls
Air Date: September 18, 2019
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S1:E5. Love or Poetize These Hoes
Air Date: September 11, 2019
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S1:E4. Gloria
Air Date: September 4, 2019
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Season 1 Overview