He's a published author of serious fiction and a teaching professor but struggling to get his latest work accepted.
Going from what's garnering press and sales it seems to him the world wants "black writing" not "black authors".
While on enforced "gardening leave" for upsetting students (again) with his abrasive manner and dealing with a family tragedy he lashes out in the only way he can: by giving people what they want.
No good will come of this.
No good will come of this.
CW: body horror, flashing lights and shakycam
Once they arrive in Aurea, as much as everything is very glamorous Elodie's stepmother (Angela Basset) fears things are not as they seem.
Nonetheless Lord Bayford and Elodie resolve to go ahead with the marriage.
No good will come of this.
CW: cartoony violence
No good will come of this.
CW: bloody violence and mayhem from the start including enucleation.
Returning to High School after summer break a series of misunderstandings and general bulshitting leads to them being believed to have "been to juvie and killed a girl" which eventually escalates into them establishing a self defence class and/or fight club depending who you ask.
Really though it's just an attempt to pick up cheerleaders and fuck them.
CW: all the big swears
The Osage Nation are fabulously wealthy, owning mineral rights to the oil rich lands and receive regular government stipends based off family inheritance.
Ernest works as a cab driver and begins regularly driving an Osage woman, Mollie (Lily Gladstone). Eventually romance blossoms and they marry. Wealth has meant they are seen as desirable/eligible outside the Osage community.
Meanwhile death stalks the the wealthy Osage.
Unexpectedly Los Angeles is devastated in a nuclear explosion and AI agents are identified as the culprits, leading to the USA banning AI and resolving to eradicate it from the face of the Earth.
So begins a decade long asymmetric war, mostly in "New Asia" where AI are just part of society.
Operative Joshua (John David Washington) goes long term deep cover in New Asia working an asset Maya (Gemma Chan) who is supposedly connected to the mysterious Nirmata, the originator of the foundational AI research and suspected to be still active.
The two get married and are expecting a child when his handlers swoop in as they believe Nirmata is on-site: killing everybody with a strike from the USA's orbital superweapon NOMAD and extracting Joshua.
Now, five years later an obviously unsympathetic Joshua is recruited to go back into the field to again hunt Nirmata and the weapon they have developed to strike back at the USA. The military claim Maya still lives and that if he assists them they will help get her out.
No good will come of this.
CW: obviously dubious abusive premise
Guy is an actor hoping for a break but has things begin to fall through while Rosemary wants a baby and finds him increasingly neglectful.
The couple are befriended by an old couple who they initially find tedious but Guy swiftly warms to them, much to Rosemary's distaste.
No good will come of this.
CW: rape, gaslighting, coercive control