Vanity Fair: Humbugs, Fools and Othered Visions

Based on the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair is set against Victorian London and the Napoleonic Wars, following Becky Sharp (Olivia Cooke) in her attempt to elevate herself out of poverty into English High Society. It’s “a vain, wicked, foolish place” narrates Michael Palin,…

Black Earth Rising: The White Man’s Burden

Revolving around Kate Ashby (Michaela Coel), Black Earth Rising follows her in as a legal investigator in the chambers of Michael Ennis (John Goodman). When her mother Eve Ashby (Harriet Walter), an international criminal lawyer, takes a case in which she will prosecute Rwandan militia leader Simon…

The Hate U Give: This Is America

Starr Carter (Amanda Stenberg) is always switching between environments. The first one is the poor, working-class, mainly Black neighbourhood where she lives with her parents (Regina Hall, Russel Horsby) and brothers (Lamar Johnson, TJ Wright). The other is the rich, mostly White, private school she…