A complex subject has been flattened into a caricature in works like The Other Black Girl, Bad Hair, and They Cloned Tyrone.
, which premieres on Hulu this Wednesday, is the latest in a line of film and TV ruminations on Blackness through the genre of horror. The mystery thriller, an adaptation of Zakiya Dalila Harris’ 2021 novel of the same name, follows Nella , an editorial assistant at a book publishing house, who is excited to no longer be the only Black woman at the company when newcomer Hazel is hired.
If all of this sounds rather familiar, it’s because the series—and the book it’s based on—pulls from the same bag of tricks that has defined much of Black horror these past few years: the dangers of whiteness, the protagonist’s dawning realization that “I got what I wanted, but it wasn’t what I thought it would be.” But, of all the tropes,hinges upon one that is particularly old hat: Black women’s hair as a tortured metaphor for racial assimilation.
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