Amandla Stenberg Destroys Black Teen Stereotypes in Netflix Series, ‘The Eddy’

Paris, jazz, danger, and love intersect in new musical drama about a father and daughter

Aramide Tinubu
ZORA
Published in
4 min readMay 11, 2020

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A still of Amandla Stenberg laying on a rug listening to music through white earphones in the Netflix show “The Eddy.”
Photos: Lou Faulon/Netflix

Typically when Paris is depicted on-screen, it is picturesque and flawless, centering the Eiffel Tower and all of the stereotypical themes that we’ve grown to associate with the City of…

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Aramide Tinubu
ZORA
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Aramide Tinubu is a NYC-based film critic & writer. She wrote her master’s thesis on Black Girlhood and Parental Loss. Find her at awordwitharamide.com.