Highlights From The Month of August 2021

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The highlights from the month of August 2021, including the top performances and collected .gifs and quotes.

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Top Performances

TV Series

David Makes Man

Season 2/ Episode 8

Throughout the whole episode, three versions of David, the original (Akili McDowell), the adult version (Kwame Patterson), and toddler (Eilan Joseph), are in a therapy session with Dr. Halloway (April Grace), and while season 2 has been a major adjustment, this episode showed why they needed to do a time jump. It wasn’t because fans didn’t deserve to see David in Hurston, and later college, but rather they didn’t want to focus on David going through traumatic things anymore. What they wanted to show is how a grown man processes and uses that trauma, for better or worse. It was a call to action on why many Black men, and people in general, need therapy, and in this episode, we get real deal therapy. It isn’t you paying someone to listen to your woes for an hour. Like seeing any licensed and certified doctor, it is about them listening to your needs and presenting you the work that needs to be done to heal and get better – heck, in David’s case, be better.

Film

Respect

Skye Dakota Turner as 10 Year Old Aretha Franklin

What Ms. Turner presents you as the young Arethra Franklin is reminiscent of Kyla Pratt in Love & Basketball, and almost every 90s/ early 00 movie that uses a young actor to set things up for the adults. She gives you the kind of performance which competes with their adult counterpart and makes it so she deserves to be in conversation whenever Jennifer Hudson’s name is mentioned when it comes to this movie.

Coda

Frank Wanting To Experience What Everyone Else Is

Imagine you are a deaf person, as is your wife and son, but your daughter is not. On top of that, your daughter is a singer, a talented one, that can move people to tears. This is your child, who you raised, and her talent that has such an effect on people, you have to experience through third parties to know how good it is. Watching that is devastating and Frank’s need to understand it by, after Ruby’s recital, feeling her vocal cords, putting his hand on her chest to feel her breathing, it drove us to tears.

Collected Quotes

TV Series

Blindspotting

Season 1 Episode 7

“Why you trying’ to run a business you are clearly runnin’ away from?
— Cuddie

David Makes Man

Season 1 Episode 10

“We can be big and scared, as long as we clear about what we scared of.”
— David

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Season 2 Episode 8

You want your outside world to look different without changing anything on the inside.
— Dr. Halloway

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I’m not trying to hurt you, but I have to point out the hurt that I see.
— Dr. Halloway

Season 2 Episode 7

You know why most people drown? It’s because to the person standing on the shore, it looks like they’re having fun.
— Shella

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Promises get broken. Toys and mirrors and clocks get broken. Bread gets broken. Not people. People get hurt. And then they get healed.
— Mx Elijah

The Chi

Season 4 Episode 10

Are you soulless or just numb?
— Tracy

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Never is a scary word.
— Tiff

Fantasy Island

Season 1/ Episode 2

There’s no way through this pain. It’s not a swamp, it’s a wall.
— Mr. Lee

Mr. Corman

Season 1/ Episode 3

Was it luck, or was it your choices?
— Josh

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You think the entire world is chaos because our lives were chaos.
— Beth

The Ms. Pat Show

You may not be broke, but you bending.
— Denise (1.1)

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You know brown liquor get you ready for one of two things — either to fuck or to fight.
— Denise (1.3)

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You can’t change who they are, but you can always support who they become.
— Ms. Pat (1.3)

Motherland: Fort Salem

Season 2 Episode 7

Doubt can’t be a factor if we’re going to succeed.
— Abigail

The White Lotus

Season 1 Episode 6

Well, I guess it’s not stealing when you think everything is yours.
— Paula

Season 1 Episode 5

I just wanna show my hand. I don’t wanna play poker anymore. I just wanna skip all the layers and just go straight to the crazy, and just let the chips fall where they may. And, you know, just show him, show him the core of the onion.
— Tanya

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