After making Watchmen broadly obtainable final weekend in honor of Juneteenth, HBO is constant its pattern of amplifying Black tales and creators by streaming the primary season of Terence Nance‘s political, surrealist sketch present, Random Acts of Flyness, without spending a dime on YouTube. In the event you missed it when it first aired again in 2018, now’s the time to immerse your self on this sequence that inventively makes use of sketch comedy, documentary, animation, music, and extra codecs to discover what it is wish to be Black in America. One of the best information is that it actually couldn’t be simpler to observe, with all six episodes of Season 1 at the moment obtainable on HBO’s YouTube channel and HBO.com till June 26.
The sequence, which gained a Peabody Award in 2019, has by no means been extra related than it’s proper now. The primary episode opens with depictions of police brutality, together with a sketch the place Nance, filming himself driving his bike as he makes an attempt to introduce the viewers to the present, is aggressively stopped by the cops. There’s additionally a sketch that includes Jon Hamm and Lakeith Stanfield in an infomercial for “White Ideas,” a revolutionary new product. It is a present completely worthy of your time, one that may make you chuckle and suppose whereas it educates you. What’s higher than that?
HBO’s New Late-Night Series Random Acts of Flyness Is Like Atlanta on Acid
Nance took to Twitter to alert his followers that the sequence has been made free to stream, writing, “I really feel like watching Random Acts shall be helpful now as a result of it looks like on a regular basis individuals ask me, ‘T, the place is Season II at?’ and I say, ‘outdoors.'” Earlier than promising that Season 2 of the sequence could be coming “quickly,” he added, “I hope it may be a part of the understanding, the studying, the sensation, the therapeutic.”
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— Terence Nance (@terencenance) June 20, 2020
However Random Acts is not the one factor you may binge without spending a dime. HBO at the moment has an awesome choice of reveals, motion pictures, documentaries, and specials celebrating Black voices that you’ll find on the community’s website proper now. Take a look at the complete record of what is obtainable to pattern beneath, and the complete record of all of the titles that shall be free till July 2.
Baltimore Rising
Wyatt Cenac’s Downside Areas
Notes From the Area
King within the Wilderness
Say Her Identify: The Life & Demise of Sandra Bland
four Little Women
We Are the Dream
Insecure
Ballers
A Black Girl Sketch Present
Betty
Euphoria
The Store: Uninterrupted
Watchmen
The Wire
We’re Right here
Obtainable till Thursday, July 2
Being Serena
Bessie
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Mothers Mabley
The Immortal Lifetime of Henrietta Lacks
United Skates
Jerrod Carmichael’s House Movies
Lil’ Rel Dwell In Crenshaw
The Apollo
The No. 1 Women’ Detective Company
Treme
True Detective
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Doreen Garner and Terence Nance, Random Acts of Flyness