Provocative, Weird and Fly: HBO’s Surreal Late Night Series ‘Random Acts of Flyness’

It’s rare when a sister can sleep in on a Friday, but when I can, I apparently like to wake myself up out of some crazy dream. Shake it off. Check my phone. HBO dropped a trailer, huh? This looking like some peak Blackness. I’m closer to 40 than 30 so I throw my glasses on my face and hit play for the culture.

Brothers and sisters, family, friends, and foe. Gather around here and listen to me when I say… WTF? I had to shake it off for a second, like, am I still dreaming? Was that dream I had the universe’s way of saying “You about to wake up to some shit you ain’t never seen before.” Lemme grab this Visine for my 3rd eye and get into this trailer. HBO released a teaser trailer for its new late-night series, Random Acts of Flyness, by Terence Nance. Unless you are some super woke genius baby, that trailer means nothing. I watched it 10 times and there isn’t a coherent sentence that I could piece together without doing a little digging. Random Acts of Flyness is described by artist and brainchild Terence Nance as “a show about the beauty and ugliness of contemporary American life.” Random Acts of Flyness will be a six-episode series featuring a handful of vignettes, musical performances, humor-filled animation and more. The cast is full of both emerging and established talent. Terence Nance; Random Acts of Flyness creator, writer, director and executive producer. The first episode of Random Acts of Flyness is said to include an encounter with NYPD and will feature segments o…