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  • OWN
  • Aug 14, 2019
  • OWN
  • Aug 14, 2019

Summary David (Akili McDowell), a 14-year-old from the Florida projects attends a magnet school for academically gifted kids created and must decide whether to take advantage of his opportunity or return to the life as the neighborhood drug dealer in this drama series based on the life of series creator and co-writer by Tarell Alvin McCraney.

Created By: Tarell Alvin McCraney

  • OWN
  • Aug 14, 2019
  • OWN
  • Aug 14, 2019
David Makes Man
Season 1
Season Premiere: Aug 14, 2019
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
81
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
6.8
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Summary David (Akili McDowell), a 14-year-old from the Florida projects attends a magnet school for academically gifted kids created and must decide whether to take advantage of his opportunity or return to the life as the neighborhood drug dealer in this drama series based on the life of series creator and co-writer by Tarell Alvin McCraney.

Created By: Tarell Alvin McCraney

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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Aug 14, 2019 • 57 m
David's Sky
Episode 2 • Aug 21, 2019 • 42 m
Dai Out
Episode 3 • Aug 28, 2019 • 42 m
MJB
David sees a psychiatrist. Dr. Woods-Trap mandates that David include Seren in his class project, helping to repair that relationship.
Episode 4 • Sep 4, 2019 • 42 m
Gloria
Episode 5 • Sep 11, 2019 • 42 m
Love or Poetize These Hoes
Episode 6 • Sep 18, 2019 • 41 m
When It All Falls
Episode 7 • Sep 25, 2019 • 42 m
Son of Man
Episode 8 • Oct 2, 2019 • 42 m
Bubble House
The police show up at the Ville as the new product brings in more cash. A boy OD's, and a hurricane is coming. Seren is missing and David is worried.
Episode 9 • Oct 9, 2019 • 42 m
Some I Love Who Are Dead
More about Raynan's home life is revealed, Gloria exposes a disturbing secret about her childhood, and Seren takes off. Phylicia Rashad also stars as David's teacher Dr. Woods-Trap.
Episode 10 • Oct 16, 2019
3 Son's Sky
David and his family return home after the storm - he has a heated chat with Saren's mother, and asks Sky all the questions he never got to ask. The repercussions of the prescription pad play out.

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
81
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0% Mixed
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Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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0% Mixed
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96
Aug 14, 2019
One of the most transcendent stories on television this year.
By Alexis Gunderson FULL REVIEW
90
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.
By Aaron Barnhart FULL REVIEW
88
Aug 14, 2019
The rhapsodic and dreamy timbre of Moonlight, the film that won the Best Picture Oscar in 2017, comes to life again in David Makes Man, a gorgeous, attention-grabbing new series on the OWN Network.
By Malcolm Venable FULL REVIEW
80
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]
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 13, 2019
The way it simply lingers in David’s worlds, and in his head, pays enormous emotional dividends in later episodes. Those installments aren’t quite as stylish as the premiere, but they allow for a touch more humor and whimsy, which proves a welcome trade-off.
By Alan Sepinwall FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 11, 2019
This viewer, at least, remains curious and eager to see more of David’s story, one that is told with élan and confidence and played with preternatural skill.
By Daniel D'Addario FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Daniel Fienberg FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
6.8
60% Positive
3 Ratings
20% Mixed
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60% Positive
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20% Mixed
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