Boots Riley’s new Amazon Prime series 'I’m a Virgo' takes aim at late-stage capitalism via its surrealist tale of a 13-foot-tall young Black man navigating Oakland.
) talk about the long and tragic history of once-in-a-generation Black giants, and their hopes that Cootie can use his stature in service of fighting a revolution. But even within this highly-stylized world, Riley and his collaborators are able to insert enough humanity to keep the show’s larger arguments from feeling like lectures.
, Amazon has somehow cornered the market on stories about how detrimental superheroes’ takeover of popular culture has actually been. Tonally, the two shows couldn’t feel more different, withdeliberately aiming for a level of slick bombast and technical wizardry meant to evoke the MCU, whilefeels deliberately homemade, with lo-fi special effects that stand out precisely because of how rough they look.
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