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| OWN | Release Date: August 14, 2019 |
Summary:
David (Akili McDowell), a 14-year-old from the Florida projects attends a magnet school for academically gifted kids created and must decide whether to take advantage of his opportunity or return to the life as the neighborhood drug dealer in this drama series based on the life of series creator and co-writer by Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Genre(s):
Drama
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Recent Episodes
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S2:E8. Trouble the Water
Air Date: August 24, 2021
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S2:E7. Homecoming
Air Date: August 17, 2021
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S2:E6. Chaos is Come Again
Air Date: August 10, 2021
Positive:
13
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
Aug 14, 2019
IndieWire
Mar 11, 2019
Season 1 Review:
David Makes Man feels like a show that can grow into itself nicely, finding exactly what it wants to show the audience and what it knows it doesn’t need to as it goes along. But right from the start, there’s a distinct rhythm that’ll hook you; a tonal confidence that’s as rhapsodic as it can be calm.
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Sep 4, 2019
Season 1 Review:
In the end, this show may wind up going the way of Rectify, an almost pure form of character drama in which storylines take a backseat to the sheer pleasure of watching a human being evolve before one’s eyes, as David Young does on David Makes Man. Either way, I know I'll be watching.
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Mar 11, 2019
Aug 13, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The show endows its hero with a complex internal life. ... It’s impossible to predict, based on the five languidly paced episodes sent to critics, where the show will end up–but McCraney seems too invested in the people around David to leave them behind. Even as it immerses us in his subjectivity, David Makes Man builds vivid, sympathetic supporting characters.
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Aug 13, 2019
Jul 8, 2021
Season 2 Review:
It is disappointing to report that the first three episodes of Season 2, which premièred in June, denature much of what made Season 1 a non-normative surprise. I’m not bothered by the “This Is Us” time jump, to a couple of decades into the future—it’s the general decline in quality. The dialogue, which had been so poetic and fascinatingly oblique, now seems insecure and utilitarian.
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Seasons & Episodes
- Series Overview
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Season 2
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Season 2 Overview
Air Date: June 22, 2021
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S2:E8. Trouble the Water
Air Date: August 24, 2021
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S2:E7. Homecoming
Air Date: August 17, 2021
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S2:E6. Chaos is Come Again
Air Date: August 10, 2021
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S2:E5. Vizcaya
Air Date: July 27, 2021
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S2:E4. My Own Best Friend
Air Date: July 20, 2021
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Season 2 Overview
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: August 14, 2019
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Season 1 Overview