The latest show-business take on Martha’s Vineyard is Our Kind of People, a nighttime soap airing Tuesdays on Fox.
The latest show-business take on Martha’s Vineyard is Our Kind of People, a nighttime soap airing Tuesdays on Fox. Adapted by producer Lee Daniels from Lawrence Otis Graham’s nonfiction book Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, the series is nominally set in Oak Bluffs but shot in Wilmington, N.C.
The first episode, Reparations, briskly introduced the main characters and plunged them into conflict. Single mom and aspiring businesswoman Angela (Yaya DaCosta) has staked everything on her campaign to enter black society in Oak Bluffs, depicted as an exclusive and snobbish network determined to freeze out the upstart.
Angela and her chief tormentor Leah (Nadine Ellis), heir to the Franklin family’s industrial empire, both have troubled teen daughters who are embroiled in their own social conflicts and secrets.
Our Kind of People also stars Joe Morton as Leah’s father, Morris Chestnut as Leah’s husband and Lance Gross as a millionaire attracted to Angela.
Episode two, titled My Mother, Myself, airs Sept. 28 at 9 p.m. on Fox.
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Gonna take a hard pass.
JESSE VINEYARD HAVENGonna take a hard pass.
I've been to Wilmington, NC.
Schools Out TisburyI've been to Wilmington, NC. Nice, but it's no Oak Bluffs.
Working on my script
George Stein Oak BluffsWorking on my script submission
Watched a few min just to see
R Scott Patterson EdgartownWatched a few min just to see how dreadful it was gonna be and I wasn't disappointed. Completely unwatchable and bears zero resemblance to
I suffered through it just to
Elizabeth B.I suffered through it just to see how many of the shots were really on the island. But I don't think I can go through that again on Monday.
Only, we don't freeze out
Bijan C Bayne WashingtonOnly, we don't freeze out "other people". Half of our friends since childhood, if not more, are year round Islanders. White, Black, Cape Verdean, et al. But hey, Lee Daniels gonna Lee Daniels: https://www.theroot.com/our-kind-of-vacation-1790870090
Just another TV show...zero
Kim Oak BluffsJust another TV show...zero research on the OB community, they did not even try; not even pronouncing the town names correctly.."Edgartun??"
Far Far Far away ... from the
PhilFar Far Far away ... from the Vineyard ... very disappointed
NOT my kind of people. Did
C Ann Oak BluffsNOT my kind of people. Did not watch however read and viewed the trailers.
Sad. Shame on the producer, director, FOX and all who allowed this deplorable representation to be presented as a TV series. Lawrence Otis Graham is probably twisting and rolling in his grave with disgust in how his book, Our Kind of People" is misinterpreted.
Except for the occasional
Christine SengeExcept for the occasional Vineyard aerial shots, there is nothing authentic about the island or Black life in O.B. in this series. One example, the lead character lives in a brick house. They couldn't even accurately recreate the architecture, let alone any other aspect of the Black summer community here.
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