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Considering that the Netflix reboot of Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It is based closely on the 1986 film of the same name, She’s Gotta Have It Season 2 might seem unlikely. The original film, which is a hybrid romantic comedy and artistic drama, follows a woman, Nola Darling, in her relationships with three different men, and the series does have a similar framework.
But Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It goes beyond the three-pronged love story, and if Spike Lee gets his way, the series will keep expanding until it manages to encompass a surprisingly large amount of Brooklyn into this character’s story and her social circle.Though the series has yet to be renewed beyond its original set of episodes, which dropped on Thanksgiving day, creator Spike Lee — who also wrote and directed the film that the series is based on — sees this story as bigger than just his original tale of Nola Darling’s three lovers. Lee and his fellow executive producer and wife Tonya Lewis Lee see this as the opening to start a series that dives into their chosen setting, Brooklyn. “The major change is there wasn’t this animal called gentrification back in 1985, when we shot the movie,” Lee told The Hollywood Reporter. “Gentrification is a big theme in the series.” The series is set in Fort Greene, a Brooklyn neighborhood that was once majority black, but now is changing into a wealthier, whiter area. “No one ever talks about the displacement of the people, brown people, who lived in South…
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