Peak Black TV | Episode 7

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

News, News Commentary, Arts, Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week, we devote an entire episode to our favorite (and not so favorite) shows on TV, touching on “Queen Sugar,” “Westworld,” “Insecure,” “Empire,” and more. We give out superlatives, delve into the brilliance of Donald Glover’s “Atlanta,” and attempt to answer the question: Have we reached peak black TV?

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0:00.0	This is going to be the volume that I'm going to speak at, Max.
0:02.6	That is fantastic.
0:03.3	This is the volume I'm going to try to speak at today.
0:05.4	Ha ha ha ha ha!
0:07.8	I'm Wesley Morris.
0:08.9	I'm Jenna Wortham, and this is still processing.
0:13.1	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:18.1	Okay, so there's two things we gotta talk about today.
0:20.1	Yes.
0:20.6	The first is how good you look.
0:21.9	Ha!
0:22.6	You look amazing.
0:24.1	Did you wear that just for me?
0:25.4	I did, actually.
0:26.9	Ha ha ha ha ha!
0:27.4	I mean, I was gonna wear something that was all black.
0:29.7	In my palette.
0:30.5	And I thought, wait, I'm not going to do that.
0:34.2	That's a bad idea.
0:35.4	I don't know why I'm not doing that, but I'm not doing it.
0:38.5	And I come into the studio today,
0:40.4	and you're wearing colors have never even seen you wear before.
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