Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith "played us all" with their revelatory Red Table Talk conversation

Slate

"In the middle of our ongoing pandemic, Friday’s very special episode of Red Table Talk became 2020’s first genuine summer blockbuster, racking up a million views within the first hour of publication and tens of millions more in the days since—an extraordinary burst of sound and fury that, when all is said and done, revealed next to nothing," says Rachelle Hampton. "Over the course of a tight 12 minutes (the show’s episodes normally average around 40 minutes in run time), the Pinkett Smiths managed to present the feeling of a confessional while confessing very little. They also walked a tightrope, balancing the need to present a united front with the necessity of exposing the fractures of their nearly 25-year marriage."