White Famous

2017

Seasons & Episodes

  • 1

6.2| 0h30m| TV-MA| en
Synopsis

Floyd Mooney is a young African-American comedian whose star is on the rise. But the path to stardom is a minefield that Floyd must navigate to maintain his credibility while attempting to become “white famous.”

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Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See
Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
walkerchelsea-40384 I stop watching episode one after the random unappealing sex scene. It made me feel uncomfortable as a woman that the producers were ok with introducing a female character in this manner.
sclafunk Michael Rappaport used to be one of my favorites, and now does anything his handlers in the intelligence community tell him. Jay Phaoroh constantly spits out tired cliche after tired cliche, and once again, as beautiful as she is, Cleopatra Coleman makes a bad show worse. She is one of the most consistently bad actresses of which I can think. Everything she does is overdone and desperate to milk whatever camera time she manages to get. Everything in this show is completely disingenuous, I could write a better script in a couple hours, half paying attention. Watch the first episode and everything u think is gonna happen, will; x + y = z is the formula for every plot conflict. I truly can't thnk of any other way to put this than stay as far away as possible, trust me. There's literally 17,248 shows that u can waste 27 mins a pop watching. Some shows are so bad they're funny, others are just funny without trying. This show does neither, but tries extremely hard, and falls flat on its face over and over and over, im shocked it's score at this time of this review is even close to 5.9, probably ShOwtime bots doing their best to convince people they need to see it to be relevant. There is no excuse in the golden age of TV for a show to be this devoid of any redeeming value whatsoever. It's nothing but lazy writing for the sole purpose of perpetuating fantastical divide and conquer. There's no way anyone involved put an iota of passion or care into this. It exists only to subconsciously convince people that this is how anything In the world operates, playing off the BS that keeps racism alive and framed in a little mind control box projected thru our screens. You'll probably still watch it, Bc I articulated this so well you're going to crave seeing for yourself how truly abysmal it is. There is literally more thought, creativity and pure hate fueled passion in this review than every ep of the show combined.........
devonhenry-87171 Honestly this show isn't that bad. I've read many reviews saying that the main character is not really like-able and that the show is racist but personally I think we should give this show a chance. I feel like this show has a lot of potential and can be funny at times. All it needs it is a little time to build-up (Jay Pharaoh better start doing more impressions)
corkwriter While it's always dangerous to base a conclusion about a new TV Series based on just one episode, it appears that "White Famous" on Showtime is a dandy. It's about a young black comedian trying to make the move to movies in Hollywood while maintaining his personal, artistic and racial identity and integrity.So yeah, it'a hybrid, a comedy with a message, but if the initial episode is indicative, the two don't negate each other and the talent at work here is abundant.In the lead is Jay Pharaoh as the comedian. I really like his sidekick,manager/whatever, played by Jacob Ming-Trent, a classically trained actor. Never been a big fan of Michael Rapaport in the past,but he appears born to play a wackaloon director trying to get Pharoah's character in his movie.I admit I was surprised by the vitriol contained in a number of other reviews and suggest you make up your own mind. I suspect it comes less from the quality of the series and more from the neuroses of (some of) the reviewers. I've been a professional reviewer and believe me, some of them are not hooked up right.If you've got Showtime, give it a shot. I think you'll like it. If it doesn't work for you, you'll know soon enough.