Expect Showtime's Everything's Gonna Be All White to make you feel uncomfortable

The Hollywood Reporter

Sacha Jenkins’ three-part docuseries -- plus a stellar bonus episode -- delving into race in America "isn’t as rigorous as the Marxist critique Raoul Peck presented in Exterminate All the Brutes," says Daniel Fienberg, "but you can see a similar desire to bring together as many of today’s conversations in a way that ties them into ongoing and globe-spanning debates. His broad focus is on the ways Americans approach history and the way history impacts America in 2022, and those with open minds will find his points on everything from the evolution of our system of racial classification to the baked-in racism of myriad American institutions to be persuasive. But there’s a strong sense that Jenkins doesn’t care how persuasive you find the series if you come in disagreeing. Centering the perspective of people of color, the series rather emphatically trolls the white fragility that Jenkins argues fueled the January 6 failed insurrection, and that will cause more than a few people to watch the trailer for Everything’s Gonna Be All White (or just look at its title) and start immediately whining about reverse racism without watching a single second of the actual series. Jenkins seems completely comfortable making even people who agree with him uncomfortable, reifying a near-parodic version of whiteness that is, presumably, a direct response to what white representations of history did to people of color for centuries." ALSO: Comedian, actress and interview subject Amanda Seales says Everything's Gonna Be All White righteously challenges white fragility.