David Makes Man - Season 1 Watch Free in HD

The drama follows the life of a teenager living in South Florida, a teenage miracle named David. David joins a magnetic school for academically gifted youth and tries to reach his dream and move away from the poverty line. David, played by newcomer Akeley McDowell, lives between two different worlds as he travels between the streets he lives in and the school he joins.

Genre:

Drama

Actors:

Alana Arenas, Ade Chike Torbert, Travis Coles, Akili McDowell, Jimel Atkins, Lindsey Blackwell, Vonii Bristow, Nathaniel Logan McIntyre, Logan Rozos, Gillian Williams, Nick Creegan, ...»

Director:

Daina Reid, Kiel Adrian Scott, Michael Francis Williams

Country:

United States

Release:

2019

IMDb:

7.5

Quality:

Duration:

60 min

Vox

David Makes Man has growing pains. But at its best, it's a beautiful coming-of-age story about a black teenager, the people who want him to live up to all his promise, and a country that doesn't seem to have room for him.

August 19, 2019

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Salon.com

McCraney's gift as a storyteller is to get inside the pressures faced by young, specifically young black men and enable the audience to intimately understand why David makes the choices that he does...

August 19, 2019

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Deadline Hollywood Daily

Simply wonderful and stirring.

August 21, 2019

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TV Guide

The rhapsodic and dreamy timbre of Moonlight, the film that won the Best Picture Oscar in 2017, comes to life again in David Makes Man, a gorgeous, attention-grabbing new series on the OWN Network.

August 14, 2019

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TIME Magazine

Along with McDowell's disarming vulnerability, these lyrical passages give David specificity and dimension.

August 21, 2019

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It offers haunting themes, the impact of abuse and trauma, which is shown through David's dreams, waking reveries and imagination. While the latter is the most challenging aspect of the series, it's also what makes "David Makes Man" distinct.

August 14, 2019

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Decider

The story of David is pretty complex all by itself; with some of McRaney's artistic flourishes, though, he really brings the viewer into the mind of David, who really wants to break out of his situation but is scared he never will.

August 14, 2019

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The Undefeated

[David Makes Man] has the potential to grow into a compelling work of television.

August 14, 2019

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Rolling Stone

McCraney and his collaborators do a superb job of etching in these different communities and the people in them, and of getting us to want to protect David in a way he'd be afraid to ask anyone in his own life to do.

August 14, 2019

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indieWire

Right from the start, there's a distinct rhythm that'll hook you; a tonal confidence that's as rhapsodic as it can be calm.

March 12, 2019

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David Makes Man - Season 1

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