Your Guardian Angel is A Stressed Out Black Woman: ‘Avant Guardians’ Is The New Afro Futuristic Web Series To Watch

This new Afro Angelic web series finds a clever way to speak about black issues using a web series as its platform. As as actor looking to do web series work, I was intrigued by this Afro futuristic dramedy Avant Guardians. The scene is set in the clouds – heaven to be exact, starring Our guardian angel Razz and her therapist Dr Hanniel. In the first episode we get a taste of the wit of the show with our guardian angel talking about her human “creepy Charlie” and her therapist trying to make sense of why she calls him “creepy Charlie.” The first episode hits the ground running hard, the metaphors and one liners set the tone and we are strapped in for a woktivist ride. At first I wasn’t sold, thinking perhaps this was a show that was trying too hard. As the episodes progressed and I kept watching, the depth of the show was revealed to me and I started catching glimpses of the messages presented. Each scene takes place in these therapy sessions and it’s brought to our attention that our guardian angel was made to see a therapist to “keep her job.” Seemingly something happened at her “old job” – also angels have a lot of job options and she has been asked to do therapy sessions as she tries out this “new” role. We learn early that “Creepy Charlie” is meant to be the 3rd black president of the United States and Razz is supposed to watch over him. In the first episode Charlie had just gotten out of the hospital which isn’t a good look for Razz. Dr Hanniel tries her hardest to see …