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Young Jimmy Tillman, a black kid who’s killed a white strike breaker in self-defense, flees rural Arkansas and comes to Bronzeville, where he soon falls in with Casper Dixon, a smooth talking numbers runner, who brings Jimmy into the Copeland organization.
This ambitious Laurence Fishburne and Larenz Tate-helmed series is a thing of narrative scale and substance. It's set in the Chicago neighbourhood of Bronzeville in the 1940s, a time when the community's primarily African-American residents wield an unusual degree of autonomy and power. Illegal lotteries are all the rage and the Copeland brothers have made their fortune running wheels; in fact, they basically run this town. When our story begins, Everett Copeland is doing prison time, and wants retired number-runner Curtis Randolph (Fishburne) to keep an eye on the business. We also meet Everett's sister, a black college graduate who dismisses the condescension of her white landlady and fellow students with elegant disdain. Meanwhile, a young black man is on the run from the law. Fate brings him to Bronzeville, where he is drawn into the Copelands' world. Written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Josh Olsen, and produced by the people who brought us We're Alive, the passion in this project is evident; we were plunged into an immersive, precisely-imagined world, and we look forward to exploring it further over the course of this 10-part drama.
Recommended by The Audit on February 09, 2017
