In November Netflix premiered a series based on
Spike Lee’s original film She’s Gotta
Have It. I’m a huge fan of Spike Lee’s work. Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, School Daze, and He Got Game are a handful of my personal
favorites. I watched his film She’s Gotta
Have It for the first time awhile back this year, and I thought it was interesting.
The basis of the film is about a young woman named, Nola Darling, who can’t
figure out what kind of guy she wants to date, so she dates three (very
different guys – a goofball, a put-together guy and a narcissist) all at once, and
also has a brief fling with a woman, while figuring out what it is she’s looking
for. Fast forward to now and the series on Netflix? Bold. And…
Brilliant.
Creative.
Smart.
Funny.
Informative.
Thought Provoking.
When I heard a series was coming out – I honestly
wasn’t interested. But before I knew it, I finished the series in two days. I can’t deny that what
Spike Lee has done with this new version of Nola Darling is unbelievable. Nola
Darling is smart, beautiful, complicated, sexually liberated, and indecisive and
an incredibly gifted artist. The Nola from the original film even made a cameo
in one of the episodes, which was cool too. The series is very well-written,
the music set to the different episodes is on point, and the diverse and well-written characters and dialogue, in addition to the setting in New York City, all
come together to tell real and powerful stories about a young woman in search
of love, success and self-expression and discovery. It’s amazing.