Jasmine Cephas Jones anchors Starz’s adaptation of the 2018 film starring Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal
“Blindspotting” moves like a song: from opening verse to swelling chorus, emotional bridge and back again. Sometimes, this manifests quite literally, as the characters turn to the camera and burst into emphatic spoken word, turn on their heels and break into a staccato dance, or dream up an entire music video starring themselves. Other times, scenes just rock back and forth between banter and mood swings as everyone grapples with a new twist in their ever-complicating lives. It’s a lyrical series with so much to say that it sometimes stumbles over its words, but always with style. The new Starz show acts less as an adaptation of Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal’s 2018 film of the same name than a continuation of it. Set six months later, the show picks up with Diggs’ character Collin building a new life somewhere offscreen in Montana as his best friend Miles (Casal) gets arrested for possession of drugs with intent to sell, leaving his longtime girlfriend Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones) scrambling in his wake. With little other choice, Ashley takes their young son Sean (Atticus Woodward) to live with Miles’ short-tempered half-sister Trish (Jaylen Barron) and crunchy mother Rainey (Helen Hunt).
