She’s Gotta Have It Season 2 is jarring in its tonally confused commentary

The Atlantic

"Unconvincing as breezy sitcom or weighty satire, Season 2 of She’s Gotta Have It diverges further from (Spike) Lee’s romance-centric source material but offers its protagonist little imaginative recourse," says Hannah Giorgis. "Absent the guiding conflict of Nola’s polyamory, the new season of She’s Gotta Have It fills those gaps in her life with troubling misrepresentations of several social issues. Many of Season 1’s uncomfortable moments had to do with the show’s inability to reckon with just how much dating norms have changed since 1986; Season 2’s are more egregious, stemming from sweeping misrepresentations of black history and simplistic indictments of contemporary oppressors. No sun-filled, Icee-laden, natural hair–heavy Brooklyn series could buoy that narrative choice." ALSO: She's Gotta Have It struggles without its source material.