Butler’s 1970s novel Kindred and films like They Cloned Tyrone and Jordan Peele’s Nope, but the genre is still overwhelmingly white. Rapman’s choice to tell the story of Supacell within this ...

That desire to lean into the realism of life – even if the character has outlandish powers – led to the buzzy Netflix series “Supacell,” which Rapman created and serves as its showrunner.

EXCLUSIVE: Rapman utilized a superpower of his own — one that didn’t require him to don figure-hugging spandex tights and a cape — to survive the setbacks he encountered making the ...

While Supacell shares inspiration with Heroes (right ... Samuels’ The Harder They Fall and Juel Taylor’s They Cloned Tyrone for how Black culture recontextualizes stereotypes into a form ...

It took me all week of watching just an episode a day or so of Supacell, Netflix’s new out-of-nowhere superhero feature that’s putting up perfect scores and great viewership numbers ...

Supacell premieres on Netflix Thursday, June 27. In the past decade and a half, the sci-fi genre has produced a slew of TV shows and films rich with social commentary that get to the heart of the ...

“Supacell” has been renewed for Season 2 at Netflix. The announcement was made on Netflix’s social channels on Tuesday. The renewal comes after the six-episiode Season 1 debuted on the ...

But if, on a beat-by-beat basis, Supacell resembles every superhero show you’ve ever seen, the way it feels and plays out is completely distinctive. The genre is the genre, but the tone and feel ...

In his new Netflix series, “Supacell,” creator Rapman examines the lives of five ordinary Black South Londoners who develop unexpected superpowers. Though the excitement of supernatural ...

W hen writer/director Rapman's new superpowered Netflix series Supacell opens, we see a Black woman frantically running down darkened corridors, dressed in a medical gown with surveillance ...