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Spotlight on Bay Area Culture, Character, Charisma in Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal’s TV Series “Blindspotting”

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4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Blindspotting was one of 2018’s critically acclaimed films. Penned by old friends, Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, it took on race and gentrification in Oakland. Now, they’re back with a new television show based on the movie that’s a wild love letter to the Bay Area. We’ll talk with them both about the show and honoring the place that made them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Old friends, DeVeed Diggs and Rafael Casal, have been making things together for years.

1:20.9

Poetry, music, funny YouTube clips.

1:23.4

And in 2018, a movie, Blind Spotting, that took the measure of police violence and gentrification in Oakland.

1:29.7

Along the way, Dick starred in Hamilton,

1:31.5

and both of them had to move away from the Bay Area.

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Now they're back with a new TV show set in the blind spotting universe

1:37.1

that's imaginative and conflicted, surreal, and funny,

1:41.2

not unlike Oakland itself.

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That's all next on Forum, after this news.

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Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. DeVeed Diggs and Rafael Casal's 2018 film Blindspotting centered on themes at the core of Oakland where it was set, race and friendship, police violence,

2:12.4

and gentrification. They've now expanded blind spotting into a TV series on the Stars Network and the focus is broader.

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