David Makes Man was top-of-the-line exhibits of 2019, however one of many hardest exhibits to compensate for if you happen to missed its first season run on OWN. However that is lastly altering; HBO Max has completely nabbed the streaming rights to this Peabody Award-winning drama. All 10 episodes of the primary season will hit the streaming service on Thursday, July 16.
Created by Moonlight co-writer Tarell Alvin McCraney and impressed by his personal childhood rising up in Florida, David Makes Man is a lyrical drama a couple of younger boy, David (Akili McDowell), who finds himself straddling dueling worlds and the identities he assumes to navigate every. At his principally white magnet college, he is D.J., a decided pupil who’s lifeless set on moving into an elite prep college to safe the longer term he feels pressured to realize. At house, he is Dai, a extra reserved resident of a housing challenge, The Ville, whose sharp intelligence places him on the radar of the native gang.
Utilizing magical realism as an example how David copes with the traumas he endures and celebrates the triumphs he achieves, David Makes Man is a spellbinding coming-of-age story not like any you have beforehand seen.
Along with McDowell within the main position, the forged additionally consists of Phylicia Rashad, Alana Arenas, Isaiah Johnson, Ade Chike Torbert, Travis Coles, Cayden K. Williams, Nathaniel Logan McIntyre, and Jordan Bolger. McCraney govt produces alongside Michael B. Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, Mike Kelley, and Melissa Loy.
David Makes Man will likely be accessible to stream on HBO Max beginning Thursday, July 16. A second season has already been ordered by OWN.
Isaiah Johnson and Akili McDowell, David Makes Man