‘David Makes Man’ Invents a Doorway to a New Kind of TV

In a mid-season episode of David Makes Man, the new Oprah Winfrey Network drama that explores the emotional volume of black teenhood and the gnawing effects of trauma, lead character David (Akili McDowell) encounters calamity. When friends from competing worlds meet on the night of the school dance—two classmates are introduced to David’s date, a …

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