From Are You There God? It is Me, Margaret to Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing to Tiger Eyes, novelist Judy Blume wrote books that met children, tweens, and teenagers the place they had been. She mentioned puberty, intercourse, and messy feelings with a frankness that has lengthy scared conservatives, a subject touched on within the terrific documentary Judy Blume Eternally. And now her groundbreaking younger grownup novel about teen love and intercourse — which has continuously been the topic of ebook bans — is getting an intriguing TV sequence adaptation from Netflix.
Creator/showrunner Mara Brock Akil transports the setting of Blume’s novel from 1975 New Jersey to 2018 Los Angeles, the place two Black youngsters expertise past love. Lovie Simone stars as bold monitor star Keisha Clark, whereas Michael Cooper Jr. performs Justin Edwards, a crush-worthy boy with the muscle tissue of a jock and the mind of a nerd. It is simple to see why they fall for one another. More durable to grasp from this primary teaser is what might hold them aside?
We’ll discover out when the sequence Eternally hits Netflix in 2025.
