This is FRESH AIR. I m Terry Gross.
The movie Moonlight, which won the Oscar for best picture in 2017, was adapted from a script by my guest, Tarell Alvin McCraney. He and the film s director, Barry Jenkins, won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. McCraney is now the creator of the series David Makes Man, where he s also an executive producer and writer. It s in its second season on OWN, The Oprah Winfrey Network. Like Moonlight, it begins with a boy growing up in the projects in a Miami neighborhood who s neglected by his crack-addicted mother, which echoes McCraney s childhood. But in David Makes Man, the mother is able to get clean and stay sober. David is very smart and is one of two Black students in the gifted and talented class at his magnet school. He manages to get into prep school, where he s again one of the few Black students, and he s surrounded by students from families with money. The code-switching required, going back-and-forth from the projects to school
Moonlight Writer Tarell Alvin McCraney On His TV Series David Makes Man
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As we began our annual ranking of the 100 Best Shows on TV Right Now, it was impossible to ignore the fact that there s never been a right now quite like this one.
The world is still reeling amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 800,000 people. As schools, restaurants, businesses, music venues, and sports arenas shut down beginning in March in an effort to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus, so did Hollywood. Filming for many of our favorite shows ceased midseason, and with theaters closed, major blockbuster movies were delayed or released straight to streaming platforms. It s been nearly six months, and millions of Americans are still in various stages of social isolation. Throughout it all, TV has served as a coping