I’m a Virgo premiered last week on OTT and it is the last and possibly the best TV show that your teens can watch before they get back to school next week. This coming-of-age joyride, a fantasy drama about a 13-foot-tall young lad growing up in Oakland is about the beauty and contradictions he finds in the real world where he also finds friendship, love, and plenty of awkward situations.
“I’m crying 3 episodes in. There is absolutely nothing like this on TV,” tweeted Brandon Ray, already a keen viewer of the show. It’s also a view that Sikora endorsed in this ecstatic comment: “…it is so good! Imaginative, original, out of this world! So fun and symbolic. Hollywood NEEDS more Black stories and creators….One of the most unique shows I’ve seen in years.” As a bonus, it has a “Great cast, great music, great production,” he adds.
If this doesn’t convince you to watch it with your kids, then knowing that it has an unbelievable score of 94 per cent by critics on the tomatometer should convince you to watch the seven-episode show. Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone says the “whole thing is so eccentric, and so distinct, that it’s impossible to not give I’m A Virgo your full and rapt attention.”
It is a “revitalizing return to originality…. Watch it, with both eyes open,” says Dominic Patten of Deadline Hollywood Daily.
James Nokise of Flicks says that it has both “narrative quirks” and “social messages” so convincingly put forth by the lead characters played by Jharrel Jerome and Denzel Washington’s talented daughter, Olivia.
Watch it today: it’s what John Anderson describes on WSJ as “something novel, something offbeat, something surprising…” and Julian Lytle of Geek Girl Riot declares that the show’s creator Boots Riley should be “proud of what he created”.
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