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- Hulu
- Sep 13, 2023
- Hulu
- Sep 13, 2023
- Hulu
- Sep 13, 2023
- Hulu
- Sep 13, 2023
The Other Black Girl
Season 1
Season Premiere: Sep 13, 2023
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Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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29% Mixed
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5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
68
67% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
29% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
It’s fun. It’s smart. And it has something potent to say.
Although the show starts to flag somewhat over the latter half of the season, the performances of The Other Black Girl's cast elevate any slowdown in pacing or stumbles in tone, leaving you just as driven to keep pressing play on each subsequent episode to find out what will happen next.
The pleasure of The Other Black Girl lies in its willingness to take big swings, by all appearances unbothered by the pressure to be anything other than whatever it wants to be.
It’s Daniel as Nella who really shines as a woman caught in a whirlwind of confusion, fear and ambition. It’s a tricky balance, befitting the show. Both Nella and the show pull it off, if not with ease, then at least with confidence.
As TV, “The Other Black Girl” ends up being an entertaining, sometimes jarring mix of realist satire and over-the-top thriller.
Ms. Harris and her screenwriters may have been out to spoof the world of publishing and lampoon its less-diverse corners, but we don't believe the characters because the script abandons basic impulses of human nature—ambition and anger, but also the God-given, self-preservationist instinct to read a room. .... Where the Diana-Nella collaboration will go—and what Richard actually knows—are intriguing questions posed by the plot, and a viewer might want to wade through the illogic to find answers.
The genre shift ends up distracting from, rather than deepening, all the wonderful observations of the season’s first half about Nella and Hazel’s tricky interpersonal negotiations. Still, there’s so much to like about this series, from the deft performances (Beauvais may be better known these days as a cast member on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” but she’s terrific and sly here) to the look of the show itself.
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