#tracy oliver

[blacksapphicguide]

Harlem (TV series)

2020s TV series. Produced by Tracy Oliver. | 3 seasons (Ongoing).

Plot points:

Friendship.

Romance.

Variations in lifestyles and career.

Black relationship issues.

Biracial identity.

Interracial dating.

Coming out.

Interracial sapphic couples, black sapphic couples.

Black heterosexual couples.

Guest appearances from Black Hollywood.

Black sapphic characters:

Tye [lesbian] Jerrie Johnson Quinn [bisexual] Grace Byers Aimee [pansexual] Rachel True Nikki Peppermint Zoe [lesbian] Courtnee Carter Melissa [lesbian] Ebonée Noel Alicia [lesbian] Aisha Lomax Shayla [lesbian] Claudia Logan Evan [lesbian] Okema Moore Mae [lesbian] Stacia Stein

Connections:

Tye x Anna (interracial sapphics) x Shayla (black sapphics) x Melissa (black sapphics) x Zoe (black sapphics) x Aimee (black sapphics) - Quinn x Isabela (interracial sapphics) - Evan x Alicia (black sapphics) - Mae x Paula (black sapphics)

Sex & Nudity - Severe

Graphic sex scenes and sexually suggestive situations.

Violence & Gore - None

Profanity - Severe

Frequent use of bitch, fuck, shit, etc.

Frequent use of the n-word.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking - Mild

Depictions of social drinking due to night outs at the club and dinner.

Smoking of weed.

Frightening & Intense Scenes - Very Mild

Instance of a character being robbed at gunpoint.

#harlem #black sapphics #black women #black tv series #friendship #new york city #biracial identity #romance #trans women #black trans women #harlem new york #masc women #femme women #bisexual woman #singer #tech entrepreneurs #professor #fashion designer #tracy oliver #jerrie johnson #grace byers #peppermint #rachel true #courtnee carter #ebonee noel #aisha lomax #claudia logan #okema moore #stacia stein #tv series

[vintagewarhol]

#girls trip #movies #malcolm d. lee #erica rivinoja #kenya barris #tracy oliver #regina hall #queen latifah #jada pinkett smith #illustration #vintage art #alternative movie posters

[moorheadthanyoucanhandle]

CRITICAL RACE FEARY

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The Blackening--Eight attractive African-American college friends gather at a fancy cabin in the woods for a Juneteenth reunion. After a short stretch of playing spades and drinking over-sugared vodka Kool-Aid, they quickly find themselves at the mercy of a maniac, forced to play a twisted board game called "The Blackening" with their lives as the stakes.

The game is focused on black identity; the questions involve black history and culture, and the group is forced to single out a victim on the basis of which of them is "the blackest."

The director is Tim Story, who helmed the Ride Along movies. Here he's working with a really well-crafted, intricately funny script by Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins (based on a short by the sketch-comedy group 3Peat) that teases the long and intense love-hate relationship between black audiences and horror movies. It does this less subtly, perhaps, than Jordan Peele's films do, but with a solidly higher ratio of out-loud laughs.

Story generates a fine ensemble buzz with his excellent cast, all of them unknown to me except for SNL veteran Jay Pharoah, and Diedrich Bader as the token "Ranger White." The comedy outweighs the terror here, although the masked, crossbow-wielding killer is a creepy presence. Overall, this movie is the meta-slasher send-up that Scream only thought it was--truly witty, and truly about something.

The Flash--This feature vehicle for the venerable DC superhero has a terrific opening. It involves [spoiler!] a collapsing hospital building, and our harried hero's efforts to corral a maternity ward's worth of newborns plummeting from a window. There's an inventive panache to the multi-tasking gags here that Buster Keaton himself might have appreciated. But the exhilaration of this set piece isn't reflected in what follows.

Launched in 1940 as Jay Garrick with a Mercury-like helmet and rebooted, with the winged cowl, as Barry Allen in the '50s, The Flash can move so fast that he can not only dodge bullets or cross a continent in seconds, he can literally do what Cher only wishes she could do: turn back time. In this story, Barry (a charmingly callow Ezra Miller) decides to go back and prevent the murder of his mother (Maribel Verdú) which of course screws up the space-time continuum. As a result he must team up with a slacker version of himself from a different time-stream to undo the mess he's made, and deal with multiple versions of iconic characters, including Michael Keaton enjoyably returning to the role of a rather Howard Hughes-like Bruce Wayne/Batman.

If all this sounds to you a lot like the "Multiverse" from over at Marvel, I can only tell you it seemed that way to me too, and not to this movie's benefit. Despite some playful uses, the Multiverse's bottomless stockpile of do-overs and variant replacement characters was already getting on my nerves in the Marvel flicks, and this DC spin on it has the same effect: a dilution of the dramatic stakes.

There's some amusement, I suppose, in the many cameos by various versions of the characters, but it's a dorky, narratively inert amusement, more like a Renaissance masque or pageant than an epic. It feels like fan service, of a particularly OCD kind; like Charles V winding and re-winding his clocks, it's a futile effort to synchronize different versions of pop myths that should simply be enjoyed in their wonderfully irreconcilable diversity.

#the flash #ezra miller #jay pharoah #the blackening #tim story #maribel verdú #michael keaton #dc universe #batman #dewayne perkins #tracy oliver #3peat

[reggieponder]

Dewayne Perkins Talka about The Blackening

Reggie Ponder, The Reel Critic, talks to Dewayne Perkins about his film The Blackening. The Horror Comedy grew out of a skit Dewayne wrote and is now a full-length film. Perkins talks about his journey as well as his film.

Reggie Ponder, The Reel Critic, talks to Dewayne Perkins about his film The Blackening. The Horror Comedy grew out of a skit Dewayne wrote and is now a full-length film. Perkins talks about his journey as well as his film.

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#african american #Antoinette Robertson #comedy #Dewayne Perkins #film #Grace Byers #Horror #Jay Pharoah #Jermaine Fowler #Melvin Gregg #movies #Reggie Ponder #Sinqua Walls #The Blackening #The Reel Critic #Tim Story #Tracy Oliver #We Can&039;t All Die First #X Mayo #Yvonne Orji #Youtube

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

I've Endured, Now What?

Blue Iris - Mary Oliver / So This Is All I Will Ever Be? - Fatima Aamer Bilal / Vive, Vive - Traci Brimhall

#mine #web weaving #i was so busy surviving i never learned how to live #blue iris #mary oliver #so this is all i will ever be #fatima aamer bilal #vive vive #traci brimhall #text #literature #poem #poetry #♡

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#The Blackening #movies #film #movie review #film review #movie critic #film critic #movie #movie criticism #film criticism #horror #Tim Story #Tracy Oliver #Dewayne Perkins #Jay Pharoah #x mayo #yvonne orji #jermaine fowler #melvin gregg

[screenzealots]

"The Blackening"

Packed with timely social commentary about stereotypes and "blackness," this sophisticated horror satire is uncomfortable, whip-smart, and a whole lot of fun.

Director Tim Story‘s “The Blackening” isn’t your typical genre film; it’s a horror spoof with an edge. The perceptive and clever story from co-writers Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins is packed with timely social commentary about stereotypes and “blackness,” which gives this sophisticated satire a fresh and unexpected twist. It’s uncomfortable, it’s whip-smart, and it’s a whole lot of fun. A…

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#Antoinette Robertson #Dewayne Perkins #Grace Byers #Jay Pharoah #Jermaine Fowler #Melvin Gregg #Sinqua Walls #TIFF #Tim Story #Tracy Oliver #X Mayo #Yvonne Orji

[foolishmortal]

is he ... you know ... on family feud?

#911 abc #eddie diaz #evan buckley #oliver stark #ryan guzman #aisha hinds #bryan safi #tracie thoms #family feud #abc 911

[fearsmagazine]

THE BLACKENING | Official Trailer, Poster & Image

THE BLACKENING is directed by Tim Story from a screenplay by Tracy Oliver & Dewayne Perkins. The film stars Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg, X Mayo, Dewayne Perkins, Antoinette Robertson, Sinqua Walls, with Jay Pharoah, and Yvonne Orji.

Melvin Gregg as King, Grace Byers as Allison, Antoinette Robertson as Lisa, Sinqua Walls as Nnamdi, Jermaine Fowler as Clifton, Dewayne Perkins as Dewayne, and Xochitl Mayo as Shanika in The Blackening. Photo Credit: Glen Wilson

The Blackening centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain’t no motherf****** game. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like A Man , Barbershop ) and co-written by Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip, Harlem) and Dewayne Perkins (“The Amber Ruffin Show,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), The Blackening skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the entire cast of a horror movie is Black, who dies first?

The horror-comedy will be in theaters June 16, 2023, from Lionsgate.

#youtube #film news #movie news #theblackening #lionsgate #horror #comedy #tariler #poster #image #tim story #tracy oliver #dewayne perkins #grace byers #antoinette robertson

[sunsetphantoms]

oliver: *being skeptic and making sure not to spoil anything in interviews*

lou: so yeah eddie is also gay and tommy was supposed to be with him but that fell through

ryan: so buck and eddie are in love and love each other to their cores and are gonna get even closer this season

abc pr team: *puts ryan on family feud with the 4 actors who play the canonically queer characters of 9-1-1*

everybody but oliver basically outting eddie including ryan himself is so funny to me

#put these men in pr jail #but also don’t because i’m loving hearing about this #oliver being the only one with pr training to not spoil the show is so funny to me #911 abc #911 spoilers #gay #lgbtqia #bisexual #josh russo #bryan safi #eddie diaz #ryan guzman #evan 'buck' buckley #oliver stark #karen wilson #tracie thoms #henrietta wilson #aisha hinds #tommy kinard #lou ferrigno jr

[suchananewsblog]

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Harlem’ Season 2 On Prime Video, Where The Four Friends Continue To Explore New And Old Relationships

Harlem came around in 2021 when it seemed we were swamped with shows about four female friends trying to find love — and maybe a little sex — in New York. But the show worked because it had four veteran actors as its leads and smart writing by Tracy Oliver. The series is back with a new season, which picks up where Season 1 left off. HARLEM SEASON 2: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot: After a…

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#Black History Month #Grace Byers #Jerrie Johnson #meagan good #Shoniqua Shandai #Tracy Oliver #TV Reviews #whoopi goldberg

[911bts]

#911 abc #911 does family feud #oliver stark #aisha hinds #tracie thoms #ryan guzman #bryan safi

[wolfmadefromash]

Hen coming in with “It’s about damn time.”

A QUEEN!!!!

#hen wilson #henren #karen wilson #buck buckley #evan buckley #evan buck buckely #tommy kinard #buck x tommy #bucktommy #911 #911 on abc #911 abc #911abc #bi buck #aisha hinds #tracie thoms #Oliver stark #lou ferrigno jr #911 fandom #911 7x06

[buddiedaydreamer911]

still stuck on the “it’s about time!” that hen giggled into karen’s ear

this means those two curled up on the couch, both probably holding wine glasses, and talked about how buck somehow liked men. either bi or gay, they talked about it and agreed on it.

but they had no idea about tommy, so who exactly did they talk about buck liking????? hmmmmmm??

#literally obsessed #henren #karen wilson #henrietta wilson #eddie diaz #evan buckley #911 on abc #911 buddie #buck and eddie #oliver stark #ryan guzman #aisha hinds #tracie thoms #it’s about time #911 spoilers

[wntryoongs]

Eddie be like: I'm rollin' with the LGB 😎

#LGB IS JUST SO FUNNY FOR ME IM SO SORRY #eddie diaz #evan buckley #hen wilson #karen wilson #josh russo #family feud #911 abc #buddie #ryan guzman #oliver stark #bryan safi #aisha hinds #tracie thoms #family feud specifically asked for the fruit bowl cast #the LGBE+

[idealuk]

They're trying to kill us.

#9-1-1 #buddie #oliver stark #evan 'buck' buckley #evan buckley #ryan guzman #edmundo 'eddie' diaz #eddie diaz #tracie thoms #karen wilson #buck x eddie #buckxeddie #buckeddie #eddie x buck #eddiexbuck #eddiebuck