Harlem will be back on Prime Video for season two, and it's going in a slightly different direction.
Among the comedy's stars are Meagan Good and Grace Byers (who you'll recognise from Empire), and – believe it or not – the iconic Whoopi Goldberg.
For its return, writer Tracy Oliver explained that the show is going to focus on joy, being a more heartwarming and uplifting take on the realities of life for the central cast.
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As Prime summarises, Harlem is a new, women-led show "following a group of stylish and ambitious girlfriends in Harlem, NYC: a rising star professor; a savvy tech entrepreneur; a no-filter singer; and a hopeless romantic fashion designer. Together, they level up into the next phase of their careers, relationships and big city dreams."
Tracy described what we can expect from the next instalment, sharing (via Collider). "I would say thematically we leaned into the idea of Black joy. And part of that was because I felt like there was a lot of content that was leaning into Black trauma and Black pain.
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"I think because of the pandemic, we just were feeling already heavy, and we wanted to kind of have lightness and use the show as an opportunity to be escapist and fun and soapy and romantic, and just all the stuff that maybe we weren't experiencing in our real lives, and have the show be kind of cathartic in that way. And fun."
No complaints here; who can say no to a bit of escapism when it's too cold to go outside?
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She continued "Not that it's like a whole joyous season, but that it’s like the contemplation of having the lack thereof, and then getting to the place of joy.
"How do we get to joy, and how do we find, actually, the thing that will make us joyous, even if it's not the thing that we feel like we should be doing."
So a group of friends branching out together in NYC with plenty of happiness and romance along the way. Sounds perfect.
Harlem season 1 is streaming on Prime Video, and season 2 will arrive on February 3.
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