- Network: HBO
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 9, 2025
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The show takes a clear-eyed look at how Blacks were represented in front of and behind the camera.
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It’s not a comprehensive accounting — any viewer who has watched much TV over the medium’s decades might have an opinion on what’s missing. But what’s here is always interesting, elegantly produced, sometimes exciting, often moving.
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In a sense there are two shows here. “Seen & Heard” is most bracing when it interrogates the thornier elements of its subject, and goes down easier when it follows its imperative to accentuate the positive.