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American Soul

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BET | Release Date: February 5, 2019

Summary: Set in the 1970s, the series takes a look at the life of Don Cornelius (Sinqua Walls) and the people who helped make Soul Train, including the dancers, the crew and musicians such as Gladys Knight (Kelly Rowland), Martha Reeves (K. Michelle), Diana Ross (Michelle Williams), Rufus Thomas (Bobby Brown) and Ike and Tina Turner (McKinleySet in the 1970s, the series takes a look at the life of Don Cornelius (Sinqua Walls) and the people who helped make Soul Train, including the dancers, the crew and musicians such as Gladys Knight (Kelly Rowland), Martha Reeves (K. Michelle), Diana Ross (Michelle Williams), Rufus Thomas (Bobby Brown) and Ike and Tina Turner (McKinley Freeman and Gabrielle Dennis).… Expand

Creator: Jonathan Prince and Devon Greggory

Genre(s): Drama, Music

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S2:E8. So Long, Sucker
Air Date: July 15, 2020
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S2:E7. Love Will Keep Us Together
Air Date: July 8, 2020
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S2:E6. Low Rider
Air Date: July 1, 2020

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Entertainment Weekly

Leah Greenblatt

Jan 28, 2019

Season 1 Review: Glossy but heartfelt high-soap style; not quite the hippest, but it's still a trip. [1/8 Feb 2019, p.87]

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Los Angeles Times

Robert Lloyd

Feb 5, 2019

Season 1 Review: Corny in its broad strokes, with narrative twists that will shock no viewer familiar with television, it is often appealing in its particulars; the dialogue has a natural, twisty flow when it's not bent under the weight of exposition or stretching too far toward profundity. Read full review

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Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Feb 5, 2019

Season 1 Review: The scenes from the set of Soul Train are well-captured and choreographed. But BET’s still limited production budgets are reflected in recurrent Vietnam War sequences involving the Clark kids’ father. They’re phony-looking to say the least, and really not needed at all. Walls, formerly of Starz’s Power series, is effective as Cornelius, although not to the point of blowing anyone away. Read full review

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The New Yorker

Troy Patterson

Feb 5, 2019

Season 1 Review: It renders Don Cornelius (Sinqua Walls), the creator and host of “the hippest trip in America,” as an archetypal entrepreneur, and pushes the existential overtones of his striving to the front of the mix. ... The agonies of the secondary characters--the aspiring dancers and anguished assistants and shady scenesters--range from social melodrama to crime melodrama, from buppie-career-angst melodrama to escape-from-South Central melodrama. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: May 27, 2020
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  S2:E8. So Long, Sucker
  Air Date: July 15, 2020
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  S2:E7. Love Will Keep Us Together
  Air Date: July 8, 2020
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  S2:E6. Low Rider
  Air Date: July 1, 2020
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  S2:E5. Say You Love Me
  Air Date: June 25, 2020
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  S2:E4. Lovely Day
  Air Date: June 17, 2020
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  Air Date: June 10, 2020
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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 5, 2019