 So the art tour the writer producer director spike Lee is added again in his latest TV series She's gotta have it which is on Netflix right now. So how did I feel about it? Well, let's get into it My name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion Hey guys, thank you so much for tuning in for my opinion slash review for she's gotta have it a Netflix original But before we get into the review, help your boy out by clicking that subscribe button Also, click the bell so you can be notified when I make uploads and also give me that thumbs up Let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes now I am a pretty big fan of Spike Lee. I pretty much love all of his content I've said before in other past videos that he is a very unconventional director He is always putting out pieces of art that is completely different from any other filmmaker and I really do appreciate that Now this is cause she's gotta have it if you did not know it is based off the 1986 movie that was written and directed by Spike Lee as well based on the same name and I do recommend you go see that as well if you want to it's only an hour and 24 minutes It is on Netflix and if you want my opinion slash view my take on that I did shoot a video of that and uploaded on my channel a few days ago So there's a link to that down in the description box, but now You know, I really did like that film It is predominantly shot in black and white that oh at oh 86 version film and a reason for that is because Martin Scorsese a big-time director in Hollywood taught Spike Lee In New York in NYU. That's where they that's where he graduated school from and that was based on Martin Scorsese's film the raging bull which came out in 1980 And that film was predominantly shot in black and white and it had a few scenes of color And so that's where Spike Lee got the idea in 1986 But now he's doing this Netflix series and I'll just go ahead and say off the top that You know why I did like both series. I did enjoy the 2017 version better. That's pretty common. You mean will common sense It's pretty much a given why because you know Spike Lee had more resources and also now You know, this is 31 years later. And so he has much more experience, you know in the film Making industry. So I mean I'll say it like this the 2017 Netflix version is what he wanted to do and the 86 version is what he could only do and I say that just based on Like the budget because in the 86 version the budget was only $175,000 it was only his second piece of art that he put out So he really didn't have that much creative control and what not What's also fascinating and I mentioned this in the 86 version review is that you know There was no retakes and that whole 86 version and that shot the whole thing in 12 days I just said that the budget was a hundred and seventy five thousand dollars for the 86 version And I tried to research what the budget was for this Netflix version that came out in 2017 But sometimes they don't release that information and I couldn't find it this Netflix series is a 10 episodes This is the first season and Spike Lee did write and direct all 10 episodes and based on that This is a first ever in Netflix like out of all the Netflix series. No director has actually Directed all episodes of a given season and Spike Lee is the first one to do that So, you know Spike Lee, I just want to give you a little applause on that for being the first You know, I do kind of consider that you know somewhat of a big deal But this is you know both versions is kind of described as like a comedy or dramedy or comedy or drama or you can just say for short like you know a dramedy and What it's about is you have a character by the name of Nola Darling. She's in her opportunities You know, she's a some you can consider her a feminist and she's an artist She's somewhat of a painter and she's just going through life in Brooklyn, New York You know just trying to do her thing, you know not be labeled by what society, you know What cast her as and she just kind of bouncing back and forth between three to four lovers You know three men and if you want to add a fourth You can say a woman too now this the first version came out in 86 And that was a big deal then because just pretty much there was no content and mainstream media that addressed that I mean, of course, you know, it's always well society not me But society always says that it's okay for you know a man to sleep around and have multiple partners You know, but if a female does that, you know, she's called a number of names And so Spike Lee did have a lot of testicular fortitude for making some content like that in 86 And now he's kind of doing it again adding a lot more flavor in 2017 And I'm kind of led to the party with seeing this We're seeing this series Some of the you know, some of the critiques that people have been saying is like, okay, that was a big deal in 86 But that's really not a big deal in 2017. I don't really see what the big deal is I don't even look at it like that. I just kind of look at it as just more content You know, that's pretty much entertaining But we have no la darling. She's been played by somebody named DeWanda Jones. It's just not popping up on my radar I think she did a great job Some of her lovers are a character by the name of mars black man played by anthony ramos jamie overstreet Played by lyrick bent Someone named grill chiles played by cleo anthony And opal gillstrap played by elfinish hadera They all did a great job and what I one of the things that I did appreciate in this series is You know, nola knows her pickings or whatever She you know, each lover that she has in this series and in the original movie are completely different She kind of has like a family man over here You know an exquisite model over here that travels the world And you know introduces her to exotic things and is very spontaneous and is really narcissistic Then she and these men are older than her But then she always she has a guy that's younger to her by the name of mars That's like really into you know hip hop and younger to her and just kind of makes her laugh So she's really good with her pickings and you know in my opinion if she can you know Bunch out of these people up into one person I mean you can argue that she can pretty much have you know the perfect mate Um, but one thing that I want to mention is the character mars blackman played by uh, anthony ramos and the first episode I really wasn't fond of his character initially because I just thought he was a poser I thought he was faking it You know just trying to be down or whatever with all his hip hop swag and stuff like that But about 10 15 minutes in the episode, you know, my senses came to me. I was okay I don't know what I was thinking brandon. You know, he's being genuine. You know, he's being real or whatever And I really did like his character. Uh, he was very funny. Um, you know, he had his own sense of style And I like that I like when people are doing their own thing and this character mars blackman played by Anthony ramos was doing, you know, just that to the tee something else is fascinating about this is in the 86 version of this Of this series of the movie in 86 Spike lee was the character in his own movie playing mars blackman And mars is actually the name like when he was writing this series in 80s or this movie in 86 He could not come up with the name for mars blackman So his grandmother gave him the name like, hey, won't you name him mars and just let you know lord spike You know, she was talking to her grandson mars is the mars is the name of my grandfather So mars is actually the real life name of spike lee's great great grandfather or whatever And so I just think that's kind of neat or whatever that he used that and he's kind of just paying some lineas You know to respect to his ancestors and part of his family and I just kind of think that's cool But uh for the most part, I really did enjoy this series One thing that just stood out to me is this is in brooklyn new york And the first thing that popped up to me is the amount of color in this whole series It's just bright with color from like I said nola is an artist She's a she's a black american african-american and so she's really passionate about expressing herself With the african diaspora and just african culture And so she'd be painting the hell out of these portraits So whatever putting them around the city and they're just so much color You know in these paintings and that's just really something that stood out to me There's so much color in her outfits and her clothes and her apartment and just the whole Background of the whole series like the cinematographer did and spikely did a great job with all the contrasts in this series These 10 episodes because that was just so much color and popped out at every scene And this is also something I noticed especially because the 86 movie was predominantly shot in black and white or whatever Something else that I really did appreciate was the soundtrack the soundtrack was fire I mean there was like not one song in this movie Or in the I keep saying movie in this series that I did not appreciate This series is broken into 10 episodes In each episode is only around 30 to 35 minutes. So it's not that long. You can easily binge watch this In a weekend, of course, or even a you know a weekday after work You know, you can just kind of fly right through this and you know What's easy is like you don't even have to sit through the credits anymore with netflix as soon as a An episode is over They have an option where you can just skip the credits and skip the intro and just fly right into The next episode so it flies by for you But the soundtrack was dope. I mean they had some frank Sinatra in there It has some rap has some hip hop has some jazz has some r&b You know from you know recently ever past a few years to 50 60 years ago Just all these important gyms and artists that you know with all these great tracks over the years in the past Decades, you know Spike Lee did a great job of picking those films out And something else that I appreciate that I've really never seen anybody do before At the end of every song that that popped up in an episode He was able to show on the screen the album cover of set song or whatever And that's just something that you know Not too many people do and just kind of gives you an example Why and why I like about spike lee is he just kind of stands out from every other film maker And so that's just on top of the color and the soundtrack. That's just something else That I did appreciate and I said this is in brooklyn new york Spike Lee has a way with the camera moving it around He had a lot of aerial shots, especially in the bedroom because no less character She does like to have a lot of sex and there's nothing wrong with that if you want to have sex have sex or whatever You know, make sure you use protection out there. But you know, some of the sex scenes that he was using That he shot or whatever I really do like the aerial shots above her Her bedroom and I would talk about the specifics when I get to know this character Let it run because I'll just go ahead and give you Something now there was a lot of things that I did like about no less character In this series and there was some things that really kind of turned me off But you know, if you really was, you know down for nola, whatever, don't turn the video off now I'm going to explain all that later The thing that another thing that stood out to me the most was the fourth while breaking in this whole series Where the what said actor they just stop with her doing and they look at the camera and they talk to the audience So whatever and it's not that they're just talking to the audience this fourth while breaking Every scene that they was doing this every actor. It was like poetry or whatever. It was so poetic. I can't even say that word It was so poetic anyway It was it was powerful and it had a strong Impact or whatever and it just it spoke to me every time like, you know, they everyone was just really Making a definitive statement about, you know, how they felt in the moment with their surroundings right there And it just spoke volumes or whatever. So it's and no one else really does this or whatever And that's just another reason why this series is so good and just you know, another reason why spike lead turn Why spike lead stands out so much and I have a lot of notes here Because I just wanted to I got actually two pages or whatever because I mean, I don't care. I didn't want to leave anything out or whatever Something else that this series talked about With all the characters is there's a lot of egos. There's a lot of pride There's a lot of self-esteem issues as well This addresses a lot about women and what that grows through in society from just different walks of life Because everybody is a product of their environment or whatever and that kind of shapes and moses or whatever And we for the most part We did get to see why everybody thought the way they thought why everybody walked the way they walked or whatever You know, of course women, you know they don't like to be call holes and be words and skanks and things like that and this series did touch on that or whatever And no one should just ever disrespect a woman or whatever But and this may piss some some people off, but at the same time Let me make sure our worth is correctly and our phrase is correctly, but I don't want to say that. Well, I'll just say man and woman There's not I don't want to put everybody in the box and saying that a man should act this way and a woman Should act this way. No, I'm not saying that but There are some there is a lot of character growth You know between the characters in this series to where If they did change their behavior Maybe they would not be treated a certain way or whatnot And I'll give you an example and this may turn some women off or whatever But there was a character in this movie that was wearing a very sexy dress a very provocative dress And I think this was like an episode four And she was doing it because she wanted to feel good about herself. She knew it was sexy She knew it was going to draw attention. She knew it was going to turn heads But at the same time there was a male in this In the series it was like, hey, if you don't want attention You maybe shouldn't dress like that and that kind of pissed that character off or whatever And that may piss you off too like male shouldn't think like that But at the same time you had women in this series that was given no that same advice that was older That was elders or whatever. So I mean you have men and women saying that I mean, you know, I don't know If I put on a fireman outfit or whatever and I go walk out in public people are going to think I'm a fireman If I were a police uniform and I go walk around in public people are going to think I'm a policeman If I have on the white coat people are going to think I'm a doctor If I have a short dress on and I'm shaking my ass and got my titties and you know bouncing back and forth like that or whatever, you know, it's going to turn some heads It's going to draw attention. So I mean you can't necessarily give me I'm not saying that a man just has a the right to disrespect you or even a woman has the right to disrespect you You know if you're dressing like that No, no, no, no, I'm not saying that but at the same time You can't get mad at the attention that you may receive based on that decision That you made and that is just one of the arcs that one of the characters had to go through You know in this series that kind of had to deal with their growth um This also has like And with the fourth wall breaking it's not just nola this doing the fourth wall breaking. It's all the characters as well You know giving like nola is giving her side of the story and her perspective of how she's dealing with all her lovers But we also get the perspective of all her loves as well all three men and the woman as well But what I also like that, of course, you know, we're going to get more content Opposed to the 86 version because this is 10 episodes and that 86 version was only an hour and 24 minutes We also get to see some backstory from the lovers too We get to see where mars hangs out with his friends and when he's not with nola We get to see where jamie is hanging out when he's not with nola as well Whether he has a family or not children You know a wife that he may or may not be separated to a divorce from and going to school and things like that We necessarily don't get to see Any other aspects of uh, Greer's life the model that's super duper narcissistic But we don't necessarily have to spike Lee was you know Did a good job of balancing all that to knowing what? The honest members like myself will want to know As far as the character's best or besides nola or whatever and that just has to go with the writing and you know The editing and his directing and just you know knowing what we want to see or at least what I want to see What I appreciate and knowing what you know can be left on the cutting room floor Uh something else that I do want to address in the um in the black community Um, if you're not black, please don't get offended by this I'm just gonna be honest with you But when it comes to therapy and not necessarily today I mean I grew up here in this a lot of times but as far as black people going to therapy It's always discussing like the black or african-american people like I ain't going to therapy I ain't going to that that's like white people shit or whatever You know, and that's just something that people will say we don't mean that in a derogatory sense We're just seeing that but a lot of black people Let me just let me just speak for myself I don't want to speak for all black people But because I just can't do that because we are super duper vast But you know, I've always heard that, you know, black people really just don't like to go to therapy That they just don't feel like that's you know for them and that can be extremely problematic And cause a lot of problems and therapy is important. So one thing about nola and I don't want to jump too far ahead is Actually, let me let me press pause there The Okay, let me okay. Yeah. Yeah, we can all address this and when feels hoops. I'm gonna press pause there about the therapy I'm gonna come right back, but I want to say something about nola's character for the most part. I did love like nola's character Um, I will talk about something that I did not like that I had the same exact problem in the 86 version and I am disappointed that sparkly didn't fix it But for the most part, I like nola because she's very honest. She doesn't hold any punches She kind of for the most part. She's she just tells what the deal is. She just certainly doesn't lie to her lover She's not like a pimple player. She's very transparent. She's like, look, you know, what it is Uh, I see multiple people if you like that great if you don't, you know, there's the door Okay, you can't get mad at that if you decide to stay or whatever and you just want to get caught in your feelings Because and you know when you thought this was just gonna be like a booty call or friends with friendship Type of relationship that is on you. So I will give it to nola for, you know, addressing that and not holding back any punches But at the same time nola can be very annoying at times She's very unstable and she cannot know what she wants and just throw temper tantrums or whatever Because a lot of times when she's asking for help and people try to help her She just kind of she kind of uses and abuses them or whatever and she gets this feedback from everybody Or whatever not just the man but her parents the man. She's dating the woman. She's dating You know her co-workers and things like that and so it's just like, you know, really annoying or whatever She has all these rules. I'm like, yeah, you know what it is. You know, there's just a booty call We friends or we just got done smashing It's time to go but then like 20 minutes later or a few episodes later She's like, why are you doing me like this? I thought you cared about me or whatever I thought she's gonna take care of me. You know, am I this am I that I mean It's like, whoa, wait a minute. You don't want making all the rules and now you don't want catching feelings You know what the deal is so just kind of like all that back and forth. It was just kind of annoying to me or whatever And um, I didn't you know, I didn't like that but it was somewhat of a realistic character And you know, this can't have a Mary Sue or whatever I mean people in real life do have problems and that's okay As long as you and people do make stakes and that's okay As long as you're trying to fix those mistakes and address those problems and going back to the therapy I felt that she did do that because all the problems that she had She realized it early on in episode three or episode four and she tried to fix it. Hence she'd go into therapy So I respect the fact. I'm not gonna knock anybody for not being perfect. That's insane. Nobody's perfect Everybody has problems like I just had a mistake But I do like the fact that she tried to go to therapy and she tried to work it out She tried to fix it, you know, and you know, one person was like, hey You need to go to therapy and first she was a little like turned off by but you know, she did or whatever So, you know, I do respect her character Because of that or whatever Um, but you know, there was a lot of character growth with nola and from the beginning of the series I did not know how this was going to end and I really do like that because you don't want anything to be predictable Um, you know fat joe also popped in this and I just want to say that this is his first tv appearance So, you know go fat joe. I've never really known him to be an actor and he did a pretty decent job I did enjoy seeing him on screen. I I did like that And as far as if nola's character did like get all of her problems and you know things ironed out You're just gonna have to see the series for yourself Um, I do there is something else that I did not like I did not it was 10 episodes I did not like episode 10. Um, I just thought it was just too much too much of an ego trip Just kind of too unrealistic Nola just kind of got you know, bigheaded or whatever with what she would try to do And in the real in the real life, I don't necessarily see how they can play out with anybody I'm not going to tell you what it was But I'll just say Thanksgiving and there was a gathering and I'm just like really okay I can understand how that may happen in the beginning But there was like a little singing and dancing a little number and it was choreographed nice and all that But I'm just like really ain't nobody gonna sit there and stand for that This is silly and I also just throw in a little Jabberner the three headed the three headed monster I do not like the three headed monster. No, if you've seen the series You know what I'm talking about if you haven't seen it You will know what I'm talking about and real quick before I end this and before I get my reading I just want to also listen my easter eggs or whatever There were a lot of easter eggs with spike lee and all of his films that he's directed over the years with Malcolm mix crooklin I was going to say He's got game now. He's got game Malcolm mix crooklin and also do the right thing Those are the only those are the only easter eggs from past films that I noticed if you notice any more Please let me know in the comment section below. Also. There is an act Spike Lee sister joy lee she played nola's mother In this series or whatever. So, you know, that's kind of just cool how you know He's bringing in his family and also if you watch episode six There is a scene at a gallery And there is this a random woman that comes up and she just expresses How much she likes nola's paintings and I know that at one point nola was like, hey You look so familiar and this is an easter egg that woman that pops up is actually the original nola darling in the 86 version And her name is Tracy camilla johns or whatever and I didn't catch it the first time when I was trying to do a little Look at some information before I shot this review and I saw and I was like, oh snap Was that really her? So I had to go back and I was like, man, there was her or whatever So I didn't notice it the first time but you know, I just kind of liked that or whatever And yeah, I already talked about that the main thing that grabbed me off is at the very first episode And at the very last episode of this series episode one episode team When nola was breaking the fourth wall Addressing us with you know, her poetic voice She made a definitive statement just saying, you know, nobody's gonna own me I'm my own person. Uh, I'm nobody's property. No one is going to fit me into a box And she's referring to her lovers but No one ever tried to do that Everybody tried to take their relationship with her past a booty call or past a friend's with relationships A friends with benefits. Excuse me type of deal Everybody wanted to you know, just be you know with her and respect turned like, hey, I don't want to just have 60 I want to take you out. I want to be that man for you. I want to be able to do this I want to be able to do that. No one tried to own no one tried to own her not the men Not the women So I never really understood why she was making these definitive statements. The series never addressed it They didn't address that in the 86 version and they didn't address that in the series Now there are some things that happened within the series in the middle of the series that kind of Maybe led to her thinking that way and having that pattern of thought But the series started out that way in episode one and I'm just like, okay Are they going to go back and have some backstory of so why she feels this way? Because I also said that everyone is a product of the environment or whatever But then the the series or the movie both of them never went back and so addressed it Something happened to when she was a little girl at school anything like that Somebody tried to grab her in the street one time and that pistol often made her go to therapy But that happened later on. I mean, she had a great background She had loving friends from all directions. She had both of her parents in her life Or even if that's fine, you know, still people have problems. That's okay. I'm not judging anybody But the series never did address why she feels like she's being owned And that is just something that kind of turned me off. But overall guys, I really did enjoy the series. It was a lot of fun Um, you know, it was a really nice take on someone else's life from Brooklyn, New York That had a lot of color great soundtracks great characters It was a fun ride. It was an easy watch and also it had to deal with uh, it talked about gentrification It talked about race relations and racism and who people that think Reverse racism is a real thing which is incredibly stupid And even if reverse racism was real, it wouldn't be real if there wasn't racism in the first place So let's fix the root of the problem before you try to get mad about somebody with reverse racism It also this film also not film, but series also depth a lot with Like what molados it mixed people of black and white descent and them embracing themselves and accepting who they are and accepting How society would view them and there's also some mixed people in and I think mixed people are beautiful And there's also some mixed people in this that really don't know how know what groups are truly identified with And that could be very problematic because I've met a lot of mixed people That know their view is black and they accept black and that's what's up and they accept white and that's fine too And people they know how to you know, accept both and that's great But in society there are still I don't mean to be offensive, but I'm just going to be honest There are also a lot of mixed people that have psychological problems You know, I would I would do what I can to help those people But there was a so many aspects and elements This just had to do with real life in this series that spike lee adapted and he just did a real a really great job And you know, I really did enjoy the series if I had to rate She's got a habit this Netflix original out of a 1 out of 10 I would give it an 8.5 out of 10. Yes an 8.5 out of 10 But guys that is just my opinion. Have you seen she's got a habit? Do you want to see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or you disagree with me? Let me know in the comment section below Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing If you like this video, go ahead and give me the thumbs up If you didn't provide constructive criticism at the bottom in the comment section If you're watching on youtube subscribe to my channel Go to my website check me out there and also look me up on social media Facebook instagram and twitter are that good stuff It's right there at the bottom of your screen and I made it very easy by providing a link Down in the description box below But guys, I just want to thank you again for tuning in to my opinion slash review of spike lee She's got a habit on Netflix right now. And before you go, don't forget that my name is Brennan Keith Avery And that's just my opinion. Peace