But it’s Him or Her, a half-hour comedy about a bisexual black man that has spurred the most chatter online - among the most prejudice-harboring sectors anyway. She’s developing a yet-untitled drama about a Black family in tumultuous, 1990s Los Angeles, as well as Sweet Life, a coming-of-age series based on the lives of well-off Black teens. Issa Rae has been making phenomenal use of the first look producing deal she signed with HBO in 2016 - helping the premium cable network and the television medium collectively broaden its depictions of Black people.
