A 14-year-old straddles the disjointed worlds of school and home, tuning his personality to each, in the poignant coming-of-age series DavidMakesMan. Read Alan Sepinwall's review
The title of the wonderful new OWN dramais slightly misleading. Yes, it’s about a 14-year-old boy named David struggling to become a man faster than he should have to, due to the complicated circumstances of his life. But David is just one of several names and identities our anxious and deeply sympathetic hero goes by.
“That would be hard, having to split yourself like that,” Dr. Bree suggests as he ponders the realities David has to straddle. “Hard” would be an understatement. It’sdoes so well is to portray just how much this wears on David, and how quickly his anxiety can turn to desperation when a piece of his very delicately-arranged life seems on the verge of falling out of place., which McCraney co-wrote.
Dee Harris-Lawrence is the hands-on showrunner. But the producers include Oprah Winfrey and Michael B. Jordan, whose first TV note was onThe debut episode, written by McCraney and directed by Michael Francis Williams, runs an hour without commercials and can occasionally feel sluggish, particularly regarding a small twist that’s telegraphed long in advance. But the way it simply lingers in David’s worlds, and in his head, pays enormous emotional dividends in later episodes.
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