Netflix's Forever is Mara Brock Akil doing Judy Blume for a different room. Keisha and Justin, high school seniors, suburban Atlanta, 2018 on purpose. Black joy, Black awkwardness, the whole first-love mess.
I did not need it to teach me a lesson about letting go. I needed it to tell the truth about how loud the leaving is. It did.
Akil made Girlfriends and Being Mary Jane. She knows how we talk at home. The series sits in that. Sweet, then restless, then you are on the couch wondering why you feel 17.
It is not perfect. Teen shows rarely are. I still thought about a hoodie I should have washed years ago. That is as much review as I have.
