Dear White People is "compellingly messy" in Season 3

Vulture

"Season three of Dear White People seems to have gone through a version of the pained, awkward soul-searching that often afflicts students during their third year of university or high school," Matt Zoller Seitz says of the Netflix series. "You know what you have been, but you aren’t entirely sure what you’re becoming, which means there’s no good answer when someone asks you where you’re going next, much less what you think you might do when this phase of your life has concluded. Series creator Justin Simien and his fellow writers and filmmakers have ramped up this college-based comedy-drama’s already insistent self-reflexive qualities, to the point where whole scenes and sequences appear to be dissecting themselves on an operating table and peering at their own rhetorical and dramatic innards."

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