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Season 2: We Gotta Have This! 2 Takeaways
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.” James Baldwin
She’s Gotta Have It is the name of Spike Lee’s 1986 film about a sexually liberated woman named Nola Darling. The film, which is Spike’s first film, was a brave and enthralling look at the societal elements that influence how women and particularly black women are viewed. Nola view sexuality as a device that only she can control and the concept while not new, was one that was controversial and in some ways, almost ahead of its time. For fans of his work, it is an underrated movie that deserves a higher ranking in his discography. His adaptation in 2017 debuted on Netflix and as it did in 1986, it caused a lot of conversation around topics that were possibly ignored from pansexuality to rape culture. I anxiously waited for Season 2 and I can say that I was not disappointed. Here are the three things I most appreciate from this season.
Art and Expression
In this season the emphasis on Nola’s art became the central theme. I wondered how the season could continue when the movie premise centered so heavily on Nola and her sexual freedom. In this season, Nola’s art gained her considerable recognition, but rather than allow sell her art and creative…
