“It’s rare that the interiority of black men is depicted on screen,” said Academy Award-winner Tarell Alvin McCraney.
That theme permeated the Oscar-winning “Moonlight” and it’s at the center of McCraney’s new Own series, “David Makes Man.” The hour-long drama centers on a 14-year-old prodigy (Akili McDowell) from the projects who is haunted by the death of his closest friend as his hard-working mother looks to him to find a way out of poverty.
In choosing between the streets that raised him, or the higher education that may offer a way out, the interior struggle gives the series its soul.It’s a series in which David’s interior life is generously examined, and sumptuously illustrated, bringing to life the dreams and disappointments of young black men from poor and working-class backgrounds who live in a constant state of uncertainty and anxiety.
“A black man enters any
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