Revenge of the Black Best Friend

Season

2022

Canada

7.7

Dr. Toni Shakur is an award-winning daytime talk show host and best-selling author with a message for the film and television industry: the time for creating one-dimensional, stereotyped Black characters is over.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Sassy Black Girl

Dr. Toni Shakur advertises her latest book in a '90s style infomercial and uses two case studies to illustrate how she would rewrite the stereotype of the sassy Black girl.

S1 • E2

I Swear I'm in This

In an episode of her recently syndicated talk show, Dr. Toni Shakur reveals to a Black actor that he has been cut from his new film and gives him a chance to confront the director who gave him the axe.

S1 • E3

The One Who Dies First

Phil is a Black actor on the set of a horror film who realizes a terrible truth: he's "the guy who dies first." Dr. Toni Shakur helps him resist the stereotype that requires his imminent death.

S1 • E4

Never the Hero

Dr. Toni Shakur pitches a new television series about a super-squad of Black pop culture characters who have hitherto been pushed to the sidelines but together have the power to defeat the forces of evil.

S1 • E5

Thug Race

Dr. Toni Shakur is a guest judge on a reality TV show called Thug Race, where Black actors compete to determine who can play the most convincing "thug" and secure a speaking role in an upcoming film.

S1 • E6

Cancelled

A high profile actress releases a video exposing the ways Dr. Toni Shakur has exploited Black actors and capitalised on racism in film and TV. Even worse, now she has been cancelled on Black Twitter.