Beauty in Black Season 2 Review: With Kimmie now the new CEO, holding onto all of Horace’s money, things take a turn for the Bellarie family, who will stop at nothing to get the money they think they deserve.
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Beauty in Black 2025 Director, Writer & Creator
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Beauty in Black Netflix Cast
Crystle Stewart, Taylor Polidore Williams, Amber Reign Smith, Ricco Ross, Steven G. Norfleet, Julian Horton, Terrell Carter, Richard Lawson, Debbi Morgan
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Genre
Drama, Soap Opera
The season consists of 16 episodes, each with a runtime of approximately 60 minutes.
Beauty in Black Season 2 Review
You have to give Perry kudos for constantly coming up with the most nonsensical and convoluted stories that we have been seeing over the past few years. Beauty in Black, a mammoth of a show with an ensemble cast and too many plots and subplots, returns for another equally nonsensical season after the first one was quite terrible.
The thing with this show is that you have to keep your brain strictly in a safe before you dive into its madness, but season 2 is more so because, throughout 16 episodes, nothing of note really happens. It’s just Mallory and Roy talking disrespectfully with each other, Varney being needy, and Kimmie being scared of a situation that she chose to dive into. This season is just so mind-numbingly stupid that it made me question the point of its existence.
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Season 2 mostly follows Kimmie as she becomes the boss b**ch that Horace needs her to be while the other Bellaries scramble to do something to stop it. For some reason, this season has very little happening with anyone, and it will mostly leave you annoyed because it’s so devoid of a plot or progression. There’s a new character in the midst that seems to be interesting, but is mostly left hibernating and very little drama that will feel truly engaging in the guilty pleasure sort of way.
I don’t even have much to dissect because there genuinely is nothing. All the plots discussed this season are either surface-level shock factors that are explained in the next scene or silliness that doesn’t hold ground. It took the season 7 episodes for Kimmie to face the entire Bellary clan, and even then, nothing truly happens. Sure, her victory over them using facts and numbers is fun, but it’s nothing memorable.
The second half of the season, released almost a year later, continues to pile on these unhealthy and, frankly, annoying characters even more. My gripe with this show is that every character is almost nonsensical in the way that they act. Constantly cussing at one another, there is not a moment when anyone actually uses their brains to do something, opting instead to be rambunctious and hoping for things to work out if they swear enough.
The most annoying part, probably, is how everyone tries to portray themselves as bigger than they are, with an air of superiority that is so fake that you can smell it from a mile away. The problem is, we see them fail over and over at everything they do, so trying to make us believe there is any weight to their threats is hilariously stupid. I don’t understand what these characters are suposed yo be, or even who, but wherever they are, they aren’t good.
But I always get back to this: when it comes to Beauty in Black, all of these people are just so trashy. They are disrespectful, they fight with each other in public and have no respect for themselves. I think it’s entertaining up to a certain degree, but when the characters in a show are just so morally bankrupt and have nothing going for them, things just start to get extremely boring.
Final Thoughts
It’s not like Beauty in Black Season 1 was good, but it was a guilty pleasure that gave us a lot of juicy content. Season 2 doesn’t even give us that and is an annoying, boring and repetitive mess that feels “been there, done that.” Plus, it doesn’t do a good job of showcasing its characters’ disturbing sides and constantly makes them moan and scream about one thing without actually doing anything about it. Maybe the next season will be better, but will everyone stay tuned till then?
In my opinion Season 1 was not boring. The show left me wanting to see more. Season 2 was boring. I was disappointed season 2 only had 8 episodes instead of 16. The story lines were weak and the amount of profanity was over kill. Tyler Perry if you or your team read, do better script writing and minimize the profanity.
Almost one year on, get ready for the rest of the 8 episodes of season 2 to release today!
I’ve always appreciated Tyler Perry’s work as a director: even if some storylines sometimes lack a bit of depth, the quality of the staging is generally impeccable. But in this season 2 that I just started, I feel like I’m watching a film shot by an intern: the image shakes, the visual balance is often unstable… A surprising contrast coming from him, since I know how capable he is of delivering polished work. Unless, of course, this is a new filming approach meant to create an intentionally unsteady, moving-camera effect. If that’s the case, I must say that here in Africa, this trend hasn’t reached us yet.
Agreed. He’s exploiting his fanbase. His pockets will remain lined, so he’s nof going to change a thing.
I enjoyed part 2 remember it’s television. Don’t overthink the show!