The Cassius team is back with yet another Black Watch to make sure your weekend streaming is DEI-friendly—via the proper definition. This week’s choice streams include an appearance from Wee-Bey and Paper Boi. If those words are foreign to you, we take it you’re here to get some culture because, clearly you have been lacking, respectfully.
Whether it’s documentaries, cult classic shows, or movies newly introduced to your favorite streaming platform, we’re making sure your watch list features some of the brightest talents the culture has to offer.
Survival Of The Thickest – Netflix
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Seems like Netflix understood the assignment and granted a hilarious Black woman a second season of her show, Michelle Buteau’s Survival Of The Thickest. Sure, we’re enjoying Natasha Rothwell on The White Lotus, but Hulu still gets the sideye for cancellng her How To Die Alone. Anyway, for season two of Survical Of The Thickest, Mavis Beaumont (Buteau) is still trying to get her career and love life in order but it’s still an up and down situation. But we’d be remiss to mention that a big point of us clocking in watching her platonic male homie Kalil (portrayed by Tone Bell) get his mental right with the assistance of his therapist Dr. Lawrence, played by Hassan Johnson aka Wee-Bey from The Wire. Plenty of laughs and at about a half hour an episode, you’ll be done in a weekend, if a not a day.—Alvin aqua Blanco
The Pitt – Max
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Max is really coming hard with the shows lately. While I’m getting super anxious about the upcoming season finale of The White Lotus, a friend put me on to The Pitt—and I’ve been hooked ever since. It’s a hospital drama starring Noah Wyle as Dr. Robby and British actress Tracy Ifeachor as Dr. Collins, and the concept is super dope. Each episode covers one hour of a day shift in a Pittsburgh ER, and you follow brand-new residents as they jump straight in. Dr. Robby and Dr. Collins are the anchors, guiding them through everything from gun shot wounds to simpler walk-ins. The first season has 15 episodes—I watched 14 of them this week alone—and now I’m locked in for the finale next Tuesday. It’s such an easy watch, and trust me, you’ll actually want to put your phone down. Oh, and it’s already been renewed! .—Alexis Felder
Dope Thief – Apple TV+
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Atlanta‘s Brian Tyree Henry returns with a new role in Apple TV’s Dope Thief. Playing a recovering drug addict (and former dealer), he stars alongside Wagner Moura to pull off the seemingly airtight heists of robbing drug dealers. Together they scheme by posing as DEA agents for their illicit drug busts but soon royally screw up when they rob a big time organized narcotic ring that’s also under surveillance by the actual DEA. With an intriguing storyline, the eight-episode season is a solid addition to the appointment-only television wave that’s returned. Plus, who can turn down a new Ving Rhames role?
Special Ops: Lioness comes from the mind of Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone) and features Zoe Saldaña in the role of Joe McNamara, a CIA senior case officer who heads the Lioness program. Lionesses are female operatives who go undercover in some of the CIA’s most extreme cases. Starring alongside Saldaña are Morgan Freeman, Laysla De Oliveira, LaMonica Garrett, and Nicole Kidman. Now in its second season, Freeman’s role as State Secretary Edwin Mullins is expanded, and the stakes are high as ever. – D.L. Chandler
