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Critics are Calling It…

 Avery Brooks

My TV series is better than your TV series
My TV series was shown on HBO
The Ferrari of content creators
Not like Netflix, so content to let their shows end after three seasons
Letting their best grapes die on the vine

My TV series is better than your TV series
Mine was depressing, and honest, and real
Mine stipulated that life was not worth living
While yours was only so content to bathe in the rivers of ignorance
Never realizing that hey kid, this is the real world, pack your shit up and go home

My TV series is better than your TV series
Mine featured a mixed race protagonist
Included at network request, not my own
But I used it as a way to justify my underlying racism anway
Like saying “Hey, I have a black friend”
But I don’t even have a black friend
I just have a mixed race protagonist in my TV series

My TV series is better than your TV series
Mine received glowing reviews from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter
Owen Glieberman loved it
Some members of the general public weren’t ready for it
But that’s because they weren’t ready for its themes of climate change and totalitarianism
Dumb cow-herders and Alabamians that they are

My TV series is better than your TV series
Written in a drunken fervor, it features themes close to my heart
Like sex and the dissolution of relationships
Themes exclusive to me and nobody else

My TV series is better than your TV series
It is better than yours because it is mine, and I am better than you
And there is nothing either of us can do to change this