![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() is saucy!” one friend says of his high-ceilinged apartment, not long after Cootie delights him with the sight of what it’s like to bench-press a Chevy Caprice.īut life, as his aunt reminds him, will not be easy for “a 13-foot-tall Black man.” At first, the local community’s curious but soon just fine with the giant among them. We see Cootie as a baby, then a child banging around, awkwardly, in the house of his aunt (Carmen Ejogo) and uncle (Mike Epps).Īs a teenager, eventually as a wide-eyed 19-year-old Gulliver in a world of Lilliputians, Cootie finds solace in a homemade crash pad built to scale behind his aunt and uncle’s house, and with his newfound friends. The first minute of the seven-episode series establishes the visual ground rules, with fleet, witty matter-of-factness. ![]() Riley’s an avowed socialist, in addition to being a truly creative polyglot artist. Once he ventures out into the wider world, Cootie discovers some painful truths about how that world works. Played by Jharrel Jerome, Cootie is raised in loving but naive captivity in modern-day Oakland, California. It tells the story of a literal giant, twice the size of the average human male. “I’m a Virgo” is a fairy tale - polemical, blunt, subtle, often astonishingly funny, sweet, tough, angry, sad and stubbornly hopeful. Right now on Amazon Prime there’s a remarkable series created, directed and largely written by the musician and filmmaker behind the singular 2018 capital-and-labor nightmare “Sorry to Bother You.” But there are still artists among us, creating wonders of illusion and purpose. At this point in our 2023 screen lives, we’ve seen just about everything money and a near-total lack of filmmaking magic can buy. ![]()
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