I didnt watch that garbage, but it looks similar some scenes to how the video was shot. Teh interplay between what was occuring in the movie/video and the set and the outdoor moonlight scene etc.



>First let's start with Friends, which was created to be a
>white Living Single. Friends went on to be highly promoted,
>launch the career of Jennifer Anniston, make everyone involved
>supremely rich while Living Single went on to be a cultural
>icon and that's about it.
>
>So then you have the imagery and the words of Jerrod
>Carmichael as the center of this video as Ross, but he's also
>the center of the video; while nobody seems to be taking the
>importance of the celebration as seriously as him and he's
>obviously disillusioned with everyone else.
>
>This could be seen as a commentary on how the Jerrod
>Carmichael sees himself, or it could just be seen as putting
>the character traits of Ross on him which also works.
>
>
>So we now take a step out of the illusion and get Hannibal on
>set and calling it whack and just a black Seinfeld (the show
>about nothing). Which can be seen as a commentary on The
>Carmichael Show, this part is further driven home where Jerrod
>starts to mention that it was to be subversive, before he was
>interrupted. The Carmichael Show was much more a black
>version of Everybody Loves Raymond, than Seinfeld and
>definitely wasn't a show about nothing, it was episode after
>episode of social issues spoken with black voices. And it made
>a lot of money, despite what people assume, but there was
>pushback when he wasn't allowed to put out the mass shooting
>episode.
>We're now half way through a video with zero lyrics. Aside
>from the Whodini shoutout.
>
>Return to the set, return to the show, the director takes us
>out of it. We can hear the words, it's still comedy, still
>funny. But you can see Jerrod is now our avatar into the
>world. Before he was just the intro and the scene center, but
>the director is now taking us out of the comfort. Part of us
>wants to know the Monica backstory of the phone call, because
>part of us is like "this shit is funny", but when the actors
>aren't in it, this is what that is like for them.
>
>So you have Jerrod spiraling, Issa Rae steps out of the
>backroom, dressed (I mean did you really expect that after
>they made her the goofy character?) in all white, a direct
>contrast to the all black tux. Without words she tells him to
>not say something, to follow her, (Insecure, hello!) Youtube
>to HBO without speaking to white audiences in their choice of
>expressions, then leads him right off set. Points him down
>past the lights, with Jay-z finally in the background. Jay-z
>doesn't come in until 5 minutes until his own video. And the
>verse they choose to use, while Jerrod Carmichael continues to
>look back (to what we can't see), is the one in which Jay-z
>talks about art vs. money, and becoming your own ownership.
>
>Jerrod walks through the exit, bathed in light, out to
>darkness, to reflect on Moonlight (looking up to it), while
>the exit he just left is still open. "And the best picture
>goes to La La Land".
>Stings still. You can make a Moonlight, and they'll still find
>a way not to fully honor you.
>
>

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