Get Millie Black: Millie

December 22, 2024 3:52 PM - Season 1, Episode 1

Detective Millie Black has moved back to her native Jamaica after decades in the UK. Haunted by metaphorical ghosts, she begins a search for a missing girl. The show is helmed by Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James. Content warning: violence.
posted by larrybob (4 comments total)

Because of the many plot turns of the show, I thought it best to have an episode by episode thread. At this point though, I am writing from the perspective of someone who has seen all but the final episode. Tamara Lawrence plays the title character, whose abusive mother sent her to England from Jamaica as a child. Her mother had said that Millie’s sibling was dead, but after the mother’s death, but upon returning, Millie finds that her sibling, Hibiscus identifies as a trans woman and spends time in Kingston’s Gully. Millie’s police partner is a gay man, Curtis. The issue she starts to try to solve is a missing teenage girl.
posted by larrybob at 6:49 PM on December 22, 2024

Marlon James' novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings" is an amazing, sprawling, ambitious, imaginative and not at all brief story about a huge cast of Jamaicans over three decades, so this is a setting he knows intimately. This sounds really promising-- thanks larrybob, because I hadn't heard about it.

It's on Max (formerly HBO) if anyone's curious.
posted by martin q blank at 3:10 PM on December 23, 2024 [1 favorite]

I have episode 1 queued up once I finish catching up with The Agency.
posted by FightsGameraAction at 10:17 AM on December 24, 2024 [1 favorite]

I'm two episodes into this, and so far it's very good. The Guardian's review compares it to both True Detective and Mare of East Town, which overstates things a little, but remains a useful pointer to the show's preoccupations and mood. I'm a bit nervous about its move from Jamaica to London in the later episodes, but definitely on board for the whole ride.
posted by Paul Slade at 4:55 AM on March 21 [1 favorite]