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Diarra Kilpatrick Put Her Activist Heart Into Diarra From Detroit’s Comedy
“This is definitely a sexy imagining of what it might look like for Black people to police their own communities.”
After cycling through familiar post-ghosting motions of self-doubt, a pinch of delusion and some chance clues snap Diarra out of despair and lead her to the conclusion that Chris’s disappearance is linked to a decades-old cold case. But beyond the absurdity of Diarra’s quest, which she embarks on alongside pals Moni (Claudia Logan) and Aja (DomiNque Perry), the show’s charm is also derived from its distinct sense of origin. SoSadé Clacken Joseph, who directed episode five, said to me, “I’d like to shoot this like that moment in Love Actually, where Hugh Grant is the prime minister and he’s espousing the beauty of what it is to be from the U.K.” We gave ourselves permission to have just the dollop of pure saccharine.
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