- Network: HULU
- Series Premiere Date: May 9, 2024
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Director Penny and his team skillfully blend dozens of interviews with a treasure trove of archival footage and some perfectly placed clips from TV shows and movies to create a fascinating document of Black Twitter.
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Black Twitter: A People’s History is a fun and informative document of a phenomenon that is endemic to this particular era of social media discourse, but also helped change the discourse that was happening in general culture.
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Black Twitter might be too broad, too brief, too early to serve as the definitive account of this movement. But it’s a compelling first chapter in what’s sure to be a long and lively conversation.
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It’s an engagingly specific snapshot of the Twitter era and the social period it overlapped with: a time that was serious even when it was silly, that was fun until it wasn’t.
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Stuffed full of interesting anecdotes, including the birth of the phrase #BlackGirlMagic, the most compelling components of the series occur here [in the first hour].
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If the viewer is a young Black kid who didn’t know of Twitter until its current X-era, the doc functions as a surface-level crash course. But the movement deserves more than a superficial appreciation.