‘I’m a Virgo’ Review: Boots Riley’s Prime Video Series Is Beautifully Bonkers
thewrap.com“Atlanta” to Terence Nance’s thought-provoking “Random Acts of Flyness” and Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed films “Get Out” and “Nope,” this formerly niche genre seems to be thriving in mainstream entertainment.Writer, producer and musician Boots Riley, whose 2018 film “Sorry to Bother You” catapulted him to prominence as a filmmaker, returns with his latest project: “I’m A Virgo” on Prime Video.
This highly anticipated series solidifies his position among the pioneers of the Afro-surrealist genre.Afrofuturism and Afro-surrealism, often seen as interchangeable, are different.
Where Afrofuturism blends the African diaspora’s art, science and music to speculate on the future, Afro-surrealism is about the now.
Why romanticize a dystopian future when so many working-class Black and brown bodies live in oppressive spaces at this moment?Executive Produced by Riley and Tze Chun (“Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai”), “I’m A Virgo” first appears to be an absurdist comedy about a teenage giant coming of age in an alternate reality in Oakland, California.
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