Parts of the TV series based on Lee’s debut 1986 film are “well-meaning but didactic and sledgehammer-y,” says Alan Sepinwall. Other parts are “so jarring.” “And a lot of it is utterly stunning in how it combines words and music and pictures to create what feels like a new audiovisual language. In other words… it’s a Spike Lee Joint. The creative disasters and triumphs come from the same emotional place, and you have to accept one to get the other. Even the direct address from Nola (or other characters) to the audience is a mixed bag: intimate and bewitching sometimes, stilted and distancing at others. But when it works… man oh man.”
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TOPICS: Netflix, She's Gotta Have It, Twin Peaks: The Return, David Lynch, Spike Lee