Home > Random Acts of Flyness > Season 1 « TV Series Page Random Acts of Flyness: Season 1 (2018) SEASON: Season 1 Season 1 Season 2 Episode List All Critics | Top Critics TOMATOMETER 100% Average Rating: 8.45/10 Season Reviews: 25 Fresh: 25 Rotten: 0 Critics Consensus: Random Acts of Flyness' poignant political poetry plays in harmony with its frenetic absurdist humor to create a singular musical television experience. 100% Average Rating: N/A Season Reviews: 17 Fresh: 17 Rotten: 0 Critics Consensus: No consensus yet. Critic Consensus: Random Acts of Flyness' poignant political poetry plays in harmony with its frenetic absurdist humor to create a singular musical television experience. AUDIENCE SCORE 52% liked it Average Rating: 3.3/5 User Ratings: 55 ADD YOUR RATING - NOT INTERESTED + WANT TO SEE Share on Facebook Post Want to See Not Interested Add Rating My Rating × Want to See Not Interested Post Share on Facebook Episodes 1 "What are your thoughts on raising free black children?" Air date: Aug 4, 2018 Series premiere. Terence Nance introduces the show before being stopped by the NYPD. Included: "Everybody Dies!," a cable-access show hosted by "Ripa the Reaper"; an infomercial for a topical-ointment cure for "white thoughts"; and a talk show on sex in the black community. More 2 "two piece and a biscuit" Air date: Aug 11, 2018 A video game to train an army of black women to defend themselves against aggressors is featured; a gender-diverse group of subjects talk about the performance of gender; a wise uncle attempts to program his nephews on how not to be creepy; Wendy gets lured into "Nuncaland," a Dominican-American fable inspired by a classic children's story. More 3 They Got Some S**t That'll Blow Out Our Back Air date: Aug 18, 2018 An afro goes to prison for "badness"; a family mourns a high-profile case of police violence; contestants on the game show "Hotep Squares" are asked if the Second Amendment applies to black people. More 4 Items Outside the Shelter But Within Reach Air date: Aug 25, 2018 Dangling threads from past and future episodes are addressed, including the perfect apology; a competitive game of spades; and a celebrity's latest business venture. More 5 I Tried to Tell My Therapist About My Dreams Air date: Sep 1, 2018 A young Martin Luther King, Jr. wakes from a dream; a movie star with writer's block finds inspiration in Africa and stumbles upon the devil within. More 6 They Won't Go When I Go Air date: Sep 8, 2018 In the Season 1 finale, a woman stays woke too long; a waitress contemplates uploading her consciousness to the cloud amidst warnings of an impending hurricane. Also: After Najja has her demons exorcised, her Jealousy tries to talk its way back into her life; and artist Stephanie Dinkins describes her encounters with a simulated black woman named BINA48. More Random Acts of Flyness: Season 1 Videos 0:45 Random Acts of Flyness: Season 1 Teaser View All Videos (1) Random Acts of Flyness: Season 1 Photos View All Photos (8) Tv Season Info A fluid, stream-of-conscious response to the contemporary American mediascape, each episode of RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS features a handful of interconnected vignettes, showcasing an ensemble cast of emerging and established talent. The show is a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation. Nance and his collaborators weave together such themes as ancestral trauma, history, death, the singularity, romance and more, creating a television show like nothing seen before. Genre: Art House & International Network: HBO Premiere Date: Aug 3, 2018 Creator: Terence Nance Exec. Producers: Terence Nance, Jamund Washington, Kishori Rajan, Kelley Robins Hicks, Chanelle Pearson, Ravi Nandan, John Hodges Cast Terence Nance Tonya Pinkins Melvin Mogoli Robert Kirk Jon Hamm Tremaine Brown Jr. Orlagh Cassidy Anthony Chisholm Jamil Akim O'Quinn Solange Knowles Dominique Fishback Michael Potts Show More Cast News & Interviews for Random Acts of Flyness: Season 1 Best-Reviewed Movies & TV Shows 2018 View All Random Acts of Flyness: Season 1 News Episodes 1 "What are your thoughts on raising free black children?" Air date: Aug 4, 2018 Series premiere. Terence Nance introduces the show before being stopped by the NYPD. Included: "Everybody Dies!," a cable-access show hosted by "Ripa the Reaper"; an infomercial for a topical-ointment cure for "white thoughts"; and a talk show on sex in the black community. More 2 "two piece and a biscuit" Air date: Aug 11, 2018 A video game to train an army of black women to defend themselves against aggressors is featured; a gender-diverse group of subjects talk about the performance of gender; a wise uncle attempts to program his nephews on how not to be creepy; Wendy gets lured into "Nuncaland," a Dominican-American fable inspired by a classic children's story. More 3 They Got Some S**t That'll Blow Out Our Back Air date: Aug 18, 2018 An afro goes to prison for "badness"; a family mourns a high-profile case of police violence; contestants on the game show "Hotep Squares" are asked if the Second Amendment applies to black people. More 4 Items Outside the Shelter But Within Reach Air date: Aug 25, 2018 Dangling threads from past and future episodes are addressed, including the perfect apology; a competitive game of spades; and a celebrity's latest business venture. More 5 I Tried to Tell My Therapist About My Dreams Air date: Sep 1, 2018 A young Martin Luther King, Jr. wakes from a dream; a movie star with writer's block finds inspiration in Africa and stumbles upon the devil within. More 6 They Won't Go When I Go Air date: Sep 8, 2018 In the Season 1 finale, a woman stays woke too long; a waitress contemplates uploading her consciousness to the cloud amidst warnings of an impending hurricane. Also: After Najja has her demons exorcised, her Jealousy tries to talk its way back into her life; and artist Stephanie Dinkins describes her encounters with a simulated black woman named BINA48. More Critic Reviews for Random Acts of Flyness Season 1 All Critics (25) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (0) Each episode is filled to the brim with fantastical, inventive, interconnected vignettes that use song and dance numbers, animation, cable access aesthetics and even horror movie tropes to explore what it means to be black. Sep 4, 2018 | Full Review… Danielle Scruggs Observer Top Critic Rarely do we get to see TV treated as a conduit for change, a commons for discourse, or a medium for art; but "Random Acts of Flyness" manages all three in a tidy 30 minutes. Aug 29, 2018 | Full Review… Michael Andor Brodeur Boston Globe Top Critic Nance's camera gives his subjects the physical and metaphorical space to speak their truths as an audience of outsiders observes, listens, and hopefully learns in the process. Aug 14, 2018 | Full Review… Tambay A. Obenson indieWire Top Critic Nance's show translates as something with roots in entertainment television, art house movies, and journalism-an experimental trip into blackness fly enough to post up in a modern-art museum. Aug 6, 2018 | Full Review… Maya Phillips Slate Top Critic Terence Nance paints the black experience with a canny, kaleidoscopic brush. Dec 14, 2018 | Full Review… Yohana Desta Vanity Fair The show is like a kaleidoscope, shifting perspectives from a man accosted by police to frustrated nonmonogamous girlfriends to adherents of Afro-Latino machismo to black bisexual men and their relative invisibility. Dec 14, 2018 | Full Review… Soraya Nadia McDonald The Undefeated Even in the midst of the Black television renaissance that has blessed us with, Random Acts of Flyness trumps them in all in terms of racial commentary and overall weirdness. Dec 14, 2018 | Full Review… Sesali Bowen Refinery29 Random Acts of Flyness is easily the strangest, most intoxicatingly interesting show on cable this year, with sideways turns into dark humor and subversion that reap plentiful rewards. Sep 22, 2018 | Full Review… Malcolm Venable TV Guide Artistic polymath Terence Nance does for sketch comedy what Atlanta does for the sitcom, using dream logic to connect skits, songs and interview segments loosely themed around the black experience in all its diversity. Jan 2, 2019 | Full Review… Judy Berman TIME Magazine Top Critic Ideas bubble up and themes ooze into view with a jubilance of expression... Dec 7, 2018 | Full Review… Troy Patterson New Yorker Top Critic View All Critic Reviews (25) Audience Reviews for Random Acts of Flyness: Season 1 There are no featured audience reviews yet. Click the link below to see what others say about Random Acts of Flyness: Season 1! View All News & Features 150 Erotic Movies Ranked worst to best! 2019's Most Anticipated 63 movies coming up this year 200 Essential Movies Chosen by RT staff! 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