WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Hattie (Jonica T. Gibbs) is a 20-something unemployed queer black woman who wants to break into Hollywood. Her two best friends Marie (Christina Elmore) and Nia (Gabrielle Graham) give her moral support. Finally the sorta-big break: Hattie gets a job running errands at a production company run by Ida B. (Sophina Brown). Created and written by Lena Waithe, this 8-episode series is her own Hollywood story.
MY SAY: You may not know it but we've been living in a Lena Waithe moment that began back in 2015 (on "Master of None") and will likely merge into another Waithe moment when she joins the cast of HBO's "Westworld," due back March 15.
Why Waithe? Why all these moments? Why don't we realize we're in them? Probably because we're not Waithe. She's black, queer and accomplished _ the first black woman, in fact, to win an Emmy for writing (in 2017 for "Master"). Her perspective is unique, and her ongoing moment perfectly in sync with another _ the "gender fluid" millennial one, in which the term "queer" is hardly pejorative but a catchall for a whole spectrum of so-called "nonnormative" sexuality.
