Random Acts of Flyness

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Season 16 of 6 Episodes
  • Terence Nance introduces the show before being stopped by the NYPD; "Ripa the Reaper" hosts the cable-access show "Everybody Dies!"; an infomercial offers a topical-ointment cure for "white thoughts"; a talk show on sex in the black community.
  • A video game trains black women to defend themselves against aggressors; a wise uncle attempts to program his nephews on how not to be creepy; Wendy gets lured into "Nuncaland," the Dominican-American fable inspired by a classic children's story.
  • An Afro goes to prison for "badness"; a family mourns a high-profile case of police violence; contestants on the game show "Hotep Squares" are asked if the Second Amendment applies to black people.
  • The perfect apology; a very competitive game of spades; a celebrity's latest business venture.
  • A young Martin Luther King Jr. wakes from a dream; a movie star with writer's block finds inspiration in Africa and stumbles upon the devil within.
  • A woman stays woke too long; a waitress contemplates uploading her consciousness to the cloud amid warnings of an impending hurricane; after Najja has her demons exorcised, her jealousy tries to talk its way back into her life.
Random Acts of Flyness

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Writer/director/producer Terence Nance is the mastermind behind this project, a "show about the beauty and ugliness of contemporary American life," he says. Using a fluid, stream-of-conscience approach, Nance explores cultural idioms such as patriarchy, white supremacy and sensuality via numerous interconnected vignettes, all of which showcase an ensemble cast -- including Nance -- of emerging and established talent. Nance and his collaborators weave together such themes as ancestral trauma, history, death, romance and more, creating a television show like nothing seen before.

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