'Test Pattern' Is a Master Class in Body Language Shatara Michelle Ford's debut is stunning in its examination of blackness, whiteness, gender, and class K. Austin Collins, provided by Feb. 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail “I never ask people, just casually, for their phone number,” Evan (Will Brill) says. This is how he greets Renesha (Brittany S. Hall), a woman he met in a bar sometime before, whose number he’d asked for in front of her friends, whose shyness seemed, at the time, endearing. Now they’re two strangers in a grocery store parking lot in Texas having an awkward run-in because, it’s clear, he never called — not that Renesha expected he would. “Honestly,” he says, “I woke up in the morning and was like, ‘What do I even do with this?’ ” To which Renesha replies with the obvious: “Call it.”