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Season 1 – Random Acts of Flyness

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Writer/director/producer Terence Nance is the mastermind behind this project, a "show about the beauty and ugliness of contemporary American life," he says. Using a fluid, stream-of-conscience approach, Nance explores cultural idioms such as patriarchy, white supremacy and sensuality via numerous interconnected vignettes, all of which showcase an ensemble cast -- including Nance -- of emerging and established talent. Nance and his collaborators weave together such themes as ancestral trauma, history, death, romance and more, creating a television show like nothing seen before.
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Random Acts of Flyness — Season 1

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Critics Consensus

Random Acts of Flyness' poignant political poetry plays in harmony with its frenetic absurdist humor to create a singular musical television experience.

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Judy Berman TIME Magazine 01/02/2019
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. Go to Full Review Soraya Nadia McDonald Andscape 12/15/2018
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. Go to Full Review Troy Patterson The New Yorker 12/07/2018
Ideas bubble up and themes ooze into view with a jubilance of expression... Go to Full Review Sesali Bowen Refinery29 12/15/2018
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. Go to Full Review Yohana Desta Vanity Fair 12/15/2018
Terence Nance paints the black experience with a canny, kaleidoscopic brush. Go to Full Review Malcolm Venable TV Guide 09/22/2018
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. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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04/26/2021 THIS SHOW IS AMAZING, one of the best pieces of television See more 08/22/2020 Love the creativity behind the show, a different and entertain way of understanding political shows. Recommended See more 12/20/2019 Brilliant show. Don't listen to all the noise from fragile watchers - this is a very well written show that communicates the modern black experience in a way I've never seen before. 10/10 See more 09/11/2018 There is absolutely no series like it! Absolute flyness. See more 09/01/2018 This just keeps getting better, very thought provoking. See more 08/11/2018 Novel and no-holds-barred, Terrance Nance's vision is unlike anything on television today. Giving to screen time to those who deserve it, but never get it, and portraying stories in an inventive, conscious manner Random Acts of Flyness is a director's favorite show. See more Read all reviews
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Terence Nance

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Terence Nance

Executive Producer

Tamir Muhammad

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Jamund Washington

Executive Producer

Kishori Rajan

Executive Producer

Kelley Robins

Executive Producer

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Aug 3, 2018 What Are Your Thoughts on Raising Free Black Children? Terence Nance introduces the show before being stopped by the NYPD; "Ripa the Reaper" hosts the cable-access show "Everybody Dies!"; an infomercial offers a topical-ointment cure for "white thoughts"; a talk show on sex in the black community. Details Episode 2 Aired Aug 10, 2018 Two Piece and a Biscuit A video game trains black women to defend themselves against aggressors; a wise uncle attempts to program his nephews on how not to be creepy; Wendy gets lured into "Nuncaland," the Dominican-American fable inspired by a classic children's story. Details Episode 3 Aired Aug 17, 2018 They Got Some S... That'll Blow Out Our Back 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. Details Episode 4 Aired Aug 24, 2018 Items Outside the Shelter but Within Reach The perfect apology; a very competitive game of spades; a celebrity's latest business venture. Details Episode 5 Aired Aug 31, 2018 I Tried to Tell My Therapist About My Dreams; Martin Had a Dreeeeaaaam 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. Details Episode 6 Aired Sep 7, 2018 They Won't Go When I Go A woman stays woke too long; a waitress contemplates uploading her consciousness to the cloud amid warnings of an impending hurricane; after Najja has her demons exorcised, her jealousy tries to talk its way back into her life. Details

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Season Info

Director
Terence Nance, Darius Clark Monroe, Mariama Diallo, Naima Ramos-Chapman, Jamund Washington
Executive Producer
Terence Nance, Tamir Muhammad, Jamund Washington, Kishori Rajan, Kelley Robins, Chanelle Aponte Pearson, Ravi Nandan, John Hodges
Screenwriter
Terence Nance, Jamund Washington, Frances Bodomo, Naima Ramos-Chapman, Shaka King, Mariama Diallo, Nelson Mandela Nance
Network
HBO
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date
Aug 3, 2018