WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Ava DuVernay's ("Queen Sugar," "Selma") second series for OWN is an anthologized love story about Evan Fisher (Alano Miller, "Jane the Virgin") and Gently James (Xosha Roquemore, "The Mindy Project"). He's a successful tech engineer and would-be entrepreneur in Los Angeles, while she's taking care of former Golden Age star, Miss Luma Lee Langston (Cicely Tyson). Gently's parents are MIA (father dead, mother who-knows-where) and she currently lives with the man who brought her up, tough-but-good-hearted Ben (Michael Beach). Each episode over this eight-parter covers one day in Gently and Evan's evolving relationship.
MY SAY: She's a free spirit. He's Type A. She's averse to putting down roots. He's all about roots. He's Stanford. She's the school of hard knocks. She comes from a broken home. He comes from a perfect home.
She says "potato." He says "potawto."
