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The Hair Tales

The Hair Tales

A docuseries celebrating Black women through stories about their hair, with a positive and communal feel

7.0

TV Show

United States of America
English
Documentary
2022
Tracee Ellis Ross
42 min

TLDR

Hair is a community.

What it's about

Black female public figures share their hair stories—the pressures, the changes, and the growth that has come with it.

The take

Tracee Ellis Ross is a natural at guiding the conversations, accentuating each guest in their stories about their identities through their hair. Public figures share about how their hair has served as their crown through all the harmful chemicals and messaging, spliced with women having their hair done at a salon sharing their own sentiments, and reinforcing that feeling and idea throughout the show of hair stories as community stories. Each episode does a good job running the viewer through the common rhetoric surrounding Black hair and curly hair, and combined with the general positivity of the show, creates a communally therapeutic experience.

What stands out

All that said, why is this show leaving so many awkward cuts in? Lot of exchanges sound weirder and more sarcastic than they are.

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