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Harlem - Season 1

Harlem - Season 1

byMeagan Good
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Niche B.
5.0 out of 5 starsIt’s a YES for me!
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2021
So listen, a lot of y’all seem to have a lot to say on this here platform which leaves me wondering if you keep that same energy for non-Black content.

I mean we beg and beg for representation, for a seat at the table - but then we tear the table down before the meal even begins. My goodness. Every thing isn’t for everyone. If you didn’t like the show, cool. Watch something else. But what is this desire to tear down Black art. Because that’s what this is - art - and last I checked non-Black folks get to showcase and regurgitate their art on television and in cinema without the masses pulling out their pitchforks, because it wasn’t up to their so-called standards, because it reminds them of XYZ, because it doesn’t check every single arbitrary box, because it isn’t Oscar-worthy.

Some things just… are. It’s entertainment. We endure in REAL LIFE enough. We’ve finally entered an era where Black content doesn’t automatically include Black trauma/struggle. That . is . a . win.

Also, Black professional women (and men) with degrees, and good jobs, and multiple letters behind and in front of their names are allowed to be ratchet too, also, as well. If your friends group can’t talk, laugh, and enjoy all the things without a filter, are you really even friends.

Also, Meagan Good is an A-C-T-R-E-S-S. That is her whole profession. Playing fictional characters. She’s been doing that since she was a child and way before she got married to some man. So in what world does a woman decide to not perform the duties of her job/career/profession/passion because of what her husband does or doesn’t do for a living. It’s really time for some of y’all to leave that “first lady” trope at the altar. Please. Thank you. And Amen.

Also, gay people exist. Black gay people exist. And they deserve representation too. The end.

Also, the litter police LOL really LOL that’s where you draw the line LOL just say you hate the show and go LOL

And lastly, and I say this (somewhat) respectfully, to the non-Black people that have jumped on this here platform with commentary on Black life, Black womanhood, Black TV/cinema, and all things Black in general - don’t.
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D.C. Resident
1.0 out of 5 starsI Am Very Disappointed
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2021
I had high hopes and I looked forward in watching the series 'Harlem'. I am so disappointed by the content in this series.

These are supposed to be 4 college educated professioinal black woman. However, the character Angie is acting like a hood rat. I don't like the lesbian character either because how many straight black females you know that hangs out constantly with a lesbian or vice versa? Black lesbians like to associate with other lesbians and not with heterosexaul women.

Some white people complained about segregation and only black characters in this series. Duh, we still live in a segregated society in the United States. I don't have any white friends nor do I hang out with white people in life. Even at work and in high school, the blacks hang out together and the whites do the same. I attended an HBCU school (Morgan State University) where Blacks were the majority on campus.

I was looking forward in seeing a series about 4 black professional women focusing on everyday life that we as black people deal with in our community and in society. Force diversity now on television and in the movies is not realistic in the real world.
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D.C. Resident
1.0 out of 5 stars I Am Very Disappointed
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2021
I had high hopes and I looked forward in watching the series 'Harlem'. I am so disappointed by the content in this series.

These are supposed to be 4 college educated professioinal black woman. However, the character Angie is acting like a hood rat. I don't like the lesbian character either because how many straight black females you know that hangs out constantly with a lesbian or vice versa? Black lesbians like to associate with other lesbians and not with heterosexaul women.

Some white people complained about segregation and only black characters in this series. Duh, we still live in a segregated society in the United States. I don't have any white friends nor do I hang out with white people in life. Even at work and in high school, the blacks hang out together and the whites do the same. I attended an HBCU school (Morgan State University) where Blacks were the majority on campus.

I was looking forward in seeing a series about 4 black professional women focusing on everyday life that we as black people deal with in our community and in society. Force diversity now on television and in the movies is not realistic in the real world.
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MLstone
1.0 out of 5 stars Uugghh!
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2021
I saw the low reviews and thought, let me give this a chance and decide for myself. Well, less than five minutes in, I could understand why. But I continued to watch, hoping, the distasteful script & cheesy acting would take a turn for the better. Nope!!! Painstakingly made it thru episode 1; couldn't get past episode 2. This is one of the worst things I've seen in a while. Very disappointing! But judge for yourself. Uugghh!
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Love XI
1.0 out of 5 stars Culturally negligent
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2021
Caters to the destruction of the black family under the guise of black feminism.
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AfroerotiK
1.0 out of 5 stars I wanted to love this show.
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2021
This was Sex in the City with Black women. The women were all immature, neurotic, and out of touch with reality. I find that sort of woman/child, can't cope with adult situations dysfunctional banter to be annoying. In the first two or three episodes, one young lady goes to Long Island to meet a man she met on a dating app and she LEAVES HER PURSE WITH HIM while she goes to the bathroom. I'm supposed to believe that a college professor, a woman with a PhD., can't deal with seeing her ex and she has to act like she's 12 years old in the process. The singer, who is a true artist and creative, she is someone I wanted to relate to, she seems oblivious to the fact that she can't be a leech on her friends without repercussions. The lesbian went through extraordinary lengths to not be broken up with from a woman she wanted to break up with. The Titanic engagement party . . . I don't even have words for that. I'm a bit older than these characters and I know that TV influences collective group behavior but I pray there aren't 30 something Black women out there being this stupid in real life. None of the women are women I would want to be friends with, none of them were really Black.

I think they took episodes and scenes that didn't make the cut for Sex and the City and just put Black actresses in the place of the white women.
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April
1.0 out of 5 stars Hollywood is Exhausting With It's Depiction of Dark-Skin Black Women
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2021
As a dark skin-woman, this show pisses me off.

Dark-skin women are depicted as loud, aggressive, overly sexualized, and uncouth when in reality, this is sooooo far from the truth.

This show is very disappointing. It is difficult to watch the beautiful chocolate actress be cast in such a stereotypical light and they even failed to glam her up. Hollywood really want people to have a negative and nasty image of dark skin black women and I am sick of it. Honestly, this is my first time writing an amazon prime review and I just have to say the 1st episode was downhill with the stereotypes. Dark skin women deserve to be cast as beautiful, charming, feminine, witty too but in Hollywood they they really want America thinking less of black women. This show is disappointing. Also, in full candor, knowing that this is an Amazon production makes me question the entire Amazon team. If this is indicative of how Amazon views black women, we should not support the platform. They shows are designed to set us back.
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Oklahoma Customer
1.0 out of 5 stars Disgusting Content and Misinterpretation of Successful Black Women
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2021
I knew within the first 5 minutes that I would not like this movie. The writing is poor and the content is filthy, tacky, and does not represent successful Black women. I tried to get around the language and hang in there, but completely shut it down at the lustful scene of two women who just met. What happened to honor, chastity, humility, and respecting one's self? Why must we continue to promote unGodliness? We can still showcase the life, motivation, education, hardships, and relationships of Black women without exploiting them as trashy, loose pants, and foul mouth women. Disgusting. Don't waste your time with this one. If you have a need to protect your spirit from filth, skip this.
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WhenHarryMetSheniqua
1.0 out of 5 stars Why are you doing this to us?
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2021
The entire beginning monologue in the pilot was utterly disgusting. Did someone write this thinking it was enlightening? Our community is in shambles because of these toxic femininity messages.This is really low brow television. Nothing about this series is innovative and it was extremely cringe how heavily they relied on black stereotypes. The overweight hyper-sexualized dark black women, the light skin prissy black women, the I have everything but don't have a man. Stop pushing black women to emasculate black men. The premise of this series doesn't even make sense. In one breath you praise women that discard men flagrantly, take "control of their sexuality" then promote that black women can do EVERYTHING a man does, and SHOULD do everything a man does but then criticize some men for doing what you are promoting women to do. It's okay to know your limitations as a women, and lean in to your femininity. It's also okay to desire a partner that will respect, protect and provide for you. It's also ok to be submissive. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. YOU CANT DENIGRATE MEN then a few minutes later WANT THEM. This was such trash. Take notes from Insecure. Not once did they ever emasculate any of the men in the series nor did they rely on any negative black tropes. Jeez how do people not see how this series is more detrimental to our culture than any slave movie written by Quentin Tarrentino. This series is veiled as woke but really it is pushing a terribly toxic messages to women. I still can't get over the beginning monologue, how utterly dangerous to promote promiscuity in a time when black women are the highest newly reported HIV cases. It is crazy how this series promotes discarding a person when you decide you don't want to deal with them anymore rather then learn to PUSH THROUGH difficulties together. My goodness, this was pure ka ka.
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Samantha K.
1.0 out of 5 stars I tried
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2021
I stumbled across this series by accident. I honestly really tried but it's a hell no for me. As an African American woman, I was wholeheartedly disappointed. The overall stereotypical and typical characters is annoying and tired. The Quinn character is really the only semi interesting character. The Angie character needs to be killed off immediately. The show is already lacking big time and she brings absolutely nothing to it besides talking about sex 95% of the time. Hands down, the worst character I've seen in a series. The Aunt Tammy character also needs to go. I wish I could get into this but it seems like a waste. Maybe go back to the drawing board and find new writers. However, the wardrobe seems pretty swanky.
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C93
1.0 out of 5 stars 😲🤭Really????🤨 Omgoodness 😱 SO Embarrassing. 🤦🤦🤦
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2021
Cuddled up in my recliner and was ready to watch (what I thought) would be good🤦. Maybe 10 minutes in, I hear the N word🤦🤦🤦🤦🙄🙄😡☹️🙁😕 I couldn't get to "Exit" to come out of it fast enough before I begin to hear foul, gutter, no respect for yourselves language. As I begin to shake my head in pure disgust, a sense of disappointment and sadness came over me that I won't even elaborate on. What's the use???🤷 It's was ENOUGH so long ago. I'm So sick of this. It's SO embarrassing. Really? Really??????? So that's how we're gonna keep presenting ourselves????🤦 You're actually proud of this???? 🤷🤨I'm so taken aback. I have even more respect than I already had for the women who came before who wouldn't DARE take roles like the roles that these women are portraying. I don't know what blows my mind more, the fact that they actually believed, thought, entertained the thought that this would be acceptable and an actual representation or the fact that to many it obviously is. 🤷🤯🤯Just sad. Really sad. Disturbing. Embarrassing. 🗑️ 🗑️🗑️🗑️🤮🗑️🗑️🤮🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🤮🗑️🗑️🤮☹️🙁😕
😶‍🌫️Uuuum, No Thanks.💯❌🚫❌🚫❌
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teetree
1.0 out of 5 stars Just for looks. Didn't make it through the first episode
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2021
Yes: If you like messiness, immaturity, negative black stereotypes, No: if you want something deeper and more inspiring

I got: fun fashion, beautiful black women, and the friendship between them. I didn't get much else. I really wanted to watch an ensemble of black women in a good show! Seems like they were trying for another Insecure, but I didn't really like that either. I'm tired of seeing black women portrayed as messy, immature and conflicted. Can we get a show we can watch that gives us something positive to aspire to? Not just sex with whoever, pettiness, poor coping skills, etc. I get that many will watch and enjoy for the reasons I am not going to continue to. Not everything has to be realistic and uplifting in entertainment I guess, it's whatever sells, you know...but people who look like me looking cute out the outside but doing poorly internally, Again...that's not entertaining to me. Tiring. I'm good without this one.
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