Just to set this straight up front, Blaxploitation is a genre of films that arose in the 1970s which were generally low-budget crime thrillers featuring mostly black casts and black directors. The idea of these being exploitation films stemmed from them being a transparent attempt to lure in black audiences, but it doesn’t mean the films themselves were bad or that the people involved had bad motives. In fact, some of these films are pretty entertaining and are well loved by all kinds of people.
Recently I’ve been watching a slew of TV shows featuring mostly black casts. The shows are all action/thrillers so the term blaxploitation seems to fit. But unlike the films of the 70s (Shaft, Coffy, etc.) these shows are not low budget and they seem to be doing big business for the streaming services. The first one I watched was Rebel…
