Episode: 3: Changing the Channel

Robert got the TV, but now what. Meanwhile, Joshua gets some advice on Mrs. Harrell.

This episode is a companion piece to Episode 2. Episode 2 in part dealt with how Robert was treated by white people while trying to buy the television. Episode 3 shifts to a different point. Here we see a response from some of his Black neighbors.

About that N word. It was in the script. I wrestled with it and then changed it and it still ran around in my head. I put it back in because I felt in the moment, yes Leona would say that. The art, in this case the story, has to be honest, and as soon as Keena said it in studio it felt real, it felt like the confrontation built to that moment.

Fun fact - when the talented Ricco Ross, who plays Edgar and Rev. Johnson. submitted his clips the first time, they had an echo to them. He resubmitted, but when I listened to Reverend Johnson with that reverb it sounded perfect.

Sometimes the accidents are happy accidents that work in our favor.