She the People Review: Better Than Most Tyler Perry!

She the People Review: After battling many odds, Lieutenant Governor candidate Antoinette Dunkerson finds herself working under a sexist governor in this Netflix sitcom while her and her family have to adjust to their new lives in the public eye.

She the People Review

Listen, Tyler Perry has been giving some big stinkers lately that leave a VERY sour taste in our mouths. But in She the People, a comedy about a Black woman who makes her way into the cut-throat world of politics, comprising a white boys’ club, has its moments. The series follows Antoinette, who finds herself realising her dreams when she gets elected as the Lieutenant Governor. However, that’s just the start in this uphill battle.

The series has quite a few funny moments that will leave you cackling from time to time. Antoinette is surrounded by her loving family and friends who will stop at nothing to stand by her side. It’s an endearing watch, especially because Terri J. Vaughn is a very relatable and soft-hearted Antoinette who is just learning the ropes of her new role. As the series starts and you get to know these characters, it will leave you with a smile on your face.

But, of course, in true Tyler Perry fashion, there’s no nuance or break from the insanity that the plot goes through. Every situation is an extreme that doesn’t leave any room for breathing. The problem isn’t that Perry constantly throws these characters for a loop, which I appreciated, but it’s just that everything is so over the top that it makes you lose your mind at some point. I understand that the white Governor is racist, and so were the people before him. However, it doesn’t leave room for anyone to figure anything out because there are Confederate flags everywhere.

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I also found that the series skims over a lot of problematic things and doesn’t really address them well. I don’t think you can just laugh bigotry and racism away, regardless of how new you are to your job. However, these moments lend Antoinette space for growth, which is great because she is the only person who seems to have an arc. Everyone else in her life feels like a caricature whose only job is to scream. I don’t understand this obsession with making characters scream to make the audience laugh – I don’t get how that’s really funny.

The problem, however, is also that these characters exist to assist Antoinette in her life and job. There’s hardly anything else these characters have; they all feel like one big personality with one objective. It would’ve been nice to know these people and see their growth alongside the protagonsit’s but alas, that’s not what we get. I mean, it’s problematic when you love the pot-smoking grandmother, you know?

Final Thoughts

She the People is entertaining in bits and is better than anything I have seen of Perry’s in the near past. It’s not great, but it has its moments. Watch it for Terri J. Vaughn – she does not disappoint!

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