"We couldn't look back. Covey was dead. Or so I thought. It didn't take long for me to learn that you can't run from the truth. You can't run from who you really are. Eventually, the truth will surface. And when it does, you must reckon with it."
I did not expect to like the series #BlackCake, but I loved it! It feels like there's so much story left to be told, and I really hope #Hulu gives us a second season... 🤞🏾 #Review
Eleanor Bennett has died and her two estranged children inherit a flash drive that holds her stories. Through these stories, the two learn of their mother's past life as Covey, a runaway bride accused of her husband's murder, and her journey from the Caribbean to America.
Based on the novel by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake stars Chipo Chung (Eleanor), Mia Isaac (Covey), Ashley Thomas, Rupert Evans , Cara Horgan, Adrienne Warren, Rebecca Calder, Faith Alabi, and Anthony J. Abraham. Marissa Jo Cerar serves as writer and showrunner on the series
The story takes place in Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California. Cerar wrote the adaptation and serves as showrunner on the series, which spans decades. In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder. Fifty years later in California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett, loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children, Byron and Benny, a flash drive that holds previously untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America. These stories, narrated by Eleanor, shock her children and challenge everything they thought they knew about their family’s origin.
Based on The New York Times-bestselling book by Charmaine Wilkerson, “Black Cake” is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery, from Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, and Aaron Kaplans’ Kapital Entertainment.
Girl just bc we haven’t seen a new show doesn’t mean we’re racist…..,
That's not what I said, is it? I said we notice when people are not reblogging things about Black characters and Black lead shows. Do you think Black lead shows are a new thing?
Anyway. Instead of taking things personally, you can check out some Black lead media, or media with main Black characters, that I can recommend:
The Other Black Girl (2023 - TV Show on Hulu, based on a novel of the same name I recently finished)
Harlem (2021-present, TV Show on Prime)
Survival of the Thickest (2023 - TV Show on Netflix)
Yellowjackets (2021-present, TV Show on Showtime)
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (2023, TV Show on Max)
Lovecraft Country (2020, TV Show on Max)
First Kill (2021, TV Show on Netflix)
Dear White People (2017-2021, TV Show on Netflix, and the 2015 movie of the same name)
The Good Place (2016-2019, TV Show)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-1996)
Ghosts (the UK Version, 2019-2023)
On My Block (2018-2021, TV Show on Netflix)
Darby and the Dead (2022 movie)
Bottoms (2023 movie)
Nope (2022 movie)
Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001-2015, TV show)
Sorry to Bother You (2018 movie, definitely look up CWs for this first though)
Dope (2015 movie)
Swarm (2023 TV Show, Amazon Prime)
Trinkets (2019-2021, TV Show, Netflix)
Get Out (2017 movie)
Candyman (2021 movie)
Vampires vs. The Bronx (2020 movie)
The Lovebirds (2020 movie)
Russian Doll (2019-present, TV show Netflix)
Love Life season 2 (2021, TV show on Max)
Kenan & Kel (1996-2000 tv show, Nickelodeon)
Good Burger (1997 movie)
Little Fires Everywhere (2020 tv show, Hulu)
Love Don't Cost A Thing (2003 movie)
One on One (2001-2006, TV Show)
The Proud Family (2001-2005, TV Show Disney)
That's So Raven (2003-2007, TV Show Disney)
Heartbreak High (2022-present, tv show Netflix)
Veronica Mars (2004-2007, TV Show)
iZombie (2015-2019, TV Show)
The Resort (2022, TV Show on Peacock)
Homecoming (2018-2020, TV show Amazon Prime)
The Haunting of Bly Manor (2021, TV Show Netflix)
The Hollow (2018-2021, tv show Netflix)
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (2022, tv show Max)
and these are just ones I've either seen & enjoyed or seen and would recommend - there's plenty not on this list you can find.