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The long song by andrea levy summary6/11/2023 ![]() “The Long Song,” an adaptation of Andrea Levy’s 2010 novel, not only centers a very specific Black character and experience, but deliberately dares any skittish viewers expecting something quite different to look away. ![]() Outside of something like Andrew Davies’ 2019 “Sanditon” adaptation, which cast Crystal Clarke as a Jane Austen character born in the West Indies, there really haven’t been any PBS Masterpiece dramas that spotlight Black characters, let alone have them steer the entire series. ![]() That the tragic heroine of this story is Black slave July ( Tamara Lawrance) rather than her corseted white mistress - played by period drama veteran Hayley Atwell, no less - immediately marks “The Long Song” as a very different kind of Masterpiece series. ![]()
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