“The Big Cigar” on Apple TV+: Wild and confusing, this story – media

The law of contradictions governs the universe, explains Huey, and to illustrate this thesis he tells his story: Huey P. Newton, one of the founders of the Black Panthers, a revolutionary who fights for the rights of American blacks and against their malicious harassment are by the cops – who seem to the blacks like an occupying force in theirs community. Huey is also put in prison, in solitary confinement, and the proceedings are reopened after more than two years. Huey is now free, but a marked man – and worse, a cursed idol. André Holland portrays Huey in the six-part series The Big Cigar on Apple TV+, erratically likeable, and the brutal aggressiveness of the early Panthers is portrayed extremely softly in the series. Huey primarily takes care of school meals for kids. This makes the famous photo – Huey in a commanding pose, with a carbine and African tribal spear in his hands – somehow ridiculous. Is this the worst motherfucker on the planet? In 1974, Huey is about to be arrested again and he runs away with his girlfriend Gwen to Bert Schneider in Hollywood (Alessandro Nivola),