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canceled May 2024.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv_adapted.literary_classic_adaptations.contemporary-literary-drama-adaptations.thriller-and-crime-adaptations.yr-1962-2023", "markdown": "# The Other Black Girl\n\n**The Other Black Girl** is a 2021 debut novel by the American writer Zakiya Dalila Harris and a 2023 Hulu television series adapted from it. Both versions follow Nella Rogers, the only Black editorial assistant at a predominantly white Manhattan publishing house, whose situation changes when a second Black woman is hired and unsettling events begin. The novel is a satirical workplace thriller that critiques racism, gatekeeping, and performative diversity in book publishing.[1](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/zakiya-dalila-harris-discusses-hulu-series/) • [2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-09-13/zakiya-dalila-harris-the-other-black-girl-hulu)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original novel | Debut novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris, published in 2021 by Atria Books[1](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/zakiya-dalila-harris-discusses-hulu-series/) |\n| Publishing deal | Subject of a 14-way bidding war; sold to Atria for $1 million[3](https://time.com/6312044/the-other-black-girl-review-hulu/) |\n| Author's background | Harris spent three years on the editorial track at Knopf Doubleday before leaving to write the book[3](https://time.com/6312044/the-other-black-girl-review-hulu/) • [4](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a36544516/zakiya-dalila-harris-the-other-black-girl-interview/) |\n| TV adaptation | 10-episode Hulu series developed by Harris and Rashida Jones, produced by Onyx Collective; premiered September 13, 2023[2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-09-13/zakiya-dalila-harris-the-other-black-girl-hulu) |\n| Lead cast | Sinclair Daniel as Nella Rogers, Ashleigh Murray as Hazel, with Bellamy Young, Eric McCormack, and Garcelle Beauvais[5](https://www.tvline.com/news/the-other-black-girl-cancelled-no-season-2-hulu-1235237886/) |\n| Critical reception | Metascore 71 (generally favorable); 86% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, 50% with audiences[6](https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-other-black-girl/critic-reviews/) • [7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_other_black_girl/s01) |\n| Cancellation | Canceled by Hulu in May 2024 after one season[5](https://www.tvline.com/news/the-other-black-girl-cancelled-no-season-2-hulu-1235237886/) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\n#### Season 1\n\nNew York City, the present. Nella Rogers ([Sinclair Daniel](https://www.edgepedia.org/sinclair-daniel)) is an editorial assistant at Wagner Books, where she is the only Black employee. She has pinned her hopes on one day becoming an editor and championing Black writers from that position. Her best friend outside work is Malaika (Brittany Adebumola), a brash hairstylist who thinks Nella should demand more from a company that gives her so little.\n\nEverything changes when Hazel-May McCall ([Ashleigh Murray](https://www.edgepedia.org/ashleigh-murray)) is hired as the other Black girl in the office. At first it is a relief: Hazel gets Nella's jokes, shares her frustrations, and seems like the ally she has waited years for. Then Hazel glides up the ladder at improbable speed, endearing herself to Nella's white colleagues, to Nella's editorial director Vera (Kate Owens), and to Wagner's founder [Richard Wagner](https://www.edgepedia.org/richard-wagner) ([Eric McCormack](https://www.edgepedia.org/eric-mccormack)). The goodwill Nella built gets redirected to Hazel, and the two women's friendship sours into a contest neither fully understands yet.\n\nMeanwhile Nella is editing the manuscript of a debut author, Jesse Watson ([Langston Kerman](https://www.edgepedia.org/langston-kerman)), a blunt activist who writes about structural racism in publishing and openly despises Wagner. Her attempts to shepherd his book through editorial notes put her between Jesse, who calls her a sellout for asking him to soften anything, and Wagner, which wants the edge sanded off. Jesse's question hangs over her: would Wagner ever work as hard for Nella as she works for them?\n\nThe eeriness builds in small doses. Nella keeps glimpsing the face of Kendra Rae Phillips, a legendary Black editor at Wagner who vanished decades ago, in the elevator mirror. An anonymous note appears in her workspace: \"LEAVE WAGNER NOW.\" She digs into Kendra Rae's story and finds that the only Black senior editor in Wagner's history did not simply quit; she has been on the run ever since she discovered something.\n\n**The hair party at Hazel's Harlem brownstone is the episode everyone remembers.** In \"Caught in the Rapture,\" Hazel invites Nella and Malaika to a gathering at her brownstone, ostensibly a celebration of [Black hair](https://www.edgepedia.org/black-hair) and sisterhood, full of food, music, and warm talk. As the evening goes on the tone slides, almost imperceptibly, from party to ritual: the guests' smiles hold a beat too long, the sisterly patter starts to sound rehearsed, and Hazel's hospitality begins to feel like a trap closing. The sequence plays like [Jordan Peele](https://www.edgepedia.org/jordan-peele)'s *Get Out* relocated to a house party, comedy and dread in the same breath, and it is where the series fully reveals its genre: the sisterhood Hazel keeps invoking is literal, organized, and hungry for a new member.\n\nThe truth, when it comes, is bizarre and specific. Hazel is a recruiter for a national \"sisterhood\" headed by Diana Gordon ([Garcelle Beauvais](https://www.edgepedia.org/garcelle-beauvais)), a wealthy, influential Black author whose first book was published by Wagner. The sisterhood's tool is a hair grease that does more than straighten: it numbs the brain's guilt and friction, a social lubricant that makes white institutions feel effortless, eliminating struggle in exchange for assimilation and success. Diana's first recruit was Kendra Rae, her own childhood best friend, who balked and has been hiding ever since. The same grease was used to neutralize Jesse, whose radicalism was steered into writing a book for Wagner. Kidnappings, brainwashing, and ghostly manifestations of former Wagner employees all turn out to be part of the operation's maintenance program, and Nella, with her talent and her idealism, is exactly the kind of woman Diana collects.\n\nIn the finale, Nella appears to capitulate. She shows up at Wagner transformed: her afro replaced by a pin-straight weave, her style polished, her manner agreeable. Hazel and Diana congratulate her; she is handed a corner office, the dream she came to New York with, delivered by the machine she has been fighting. But the audience learns what the sisterhood does not know: Nella is playing along. With a flash drive in her hand and a burner phone pressed to her ear, she quietly reports, \"I'm in. Let's burn it down.\" The season ends on that double image, the perfect new employee and the saboteur inside her.\n\n### Characters\n\n**Nella Rogers** (Sinclair Daniel) is the audience's eyes: earnest, ambitious, and increasingly paranoid as the office turns against her. Her arc runs from wanting to be the first through the door to her own conclusion that she does not want success if it means being the only one.\n\n**Hazel-May McCall** (Ashleigh Murray) is the other Black girl, all honey and warmth, and the show's great shapeshifter. Murray flips from kind to menacing in a single line, which is what makes Hazel genuinely unsettling.\n\n**Malaika** (Brittany Adebumola) is Nella's best friend, a hairstylist with no filter, supplying the series' biggest laughs and its most grounded read on Nella's compromises.\n\n**Richard Wagner** (Eric McCormack) is the publishing house's founder, a study in white liberal benevolence that curdles into something sinister.\n\n**Diana Gordon** (Garcelle Beauvais) is the author turned ringleader, the sisterhood's charismatic head, who genuinely believes she is helping Black women get ahead.\n\n**Jesse Watson** (Langston Kerman) is the activist author whose contempt for Wagner forces Nella to confront what her loyalty is buying her.\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\nThe ending is the series' biggest departure from the book, and it was deliberate. In Harris's novel, Nella is genuinely absorbed into the conspiracy; the show, with the author's blessing, rewrote her as an infiltrator, closing on \"Let's burn it down.\" Showrunners Reddout and Hickey said they wanted Nella's choice to differ from everyone else's, showing she has learned to play the game and now knows how to win, and that the line sets up a second season about sacrifice and identity. Some critics found the change more empowering, others noted it softens the book's darker, more cynical conclusion about assimilation.\n\n### Sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations\n\nThe series adapts Harris's 2021 debut novel, and Harris wrote on the show. The revised finale openly sets up a second season, and the showrunners said they had \"many many\" ideas for one; no second season has been released.\n\n## The novel\n\nZakiya Dalila Harris wrote the book while working in publishing. She has described leaving her job as an assistant editor at Knopf Doubleday, part of [Penguin Random House](https://www.edgepedia.org/penguin-random-house), because she was, in her words, \"very desperate, and so tired of publishing.\"[4](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a36544516/zakiya-dalila-harris-the-other-black-girl-interview/) • [2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-09-13/zakiya-dalila-harris-the-other-black-girl-hulu) The manuscript drew a fourteen-bidder auction and sold to Atria Books for a seven-figure sum of $1 million, a deal that itself became widely discussed within the publishing industry.[3](https://time.com/6312044/the-other-black-girl-review-hulu/)\n\nThe story is set at Wagner Books, a fictional prestige publisher in Manhattan. Nella Rogers, a 26-year-old editorial assistant, is the sole Black employee and hopes to become a full editor publishing important books by and about [Black people](https://www.edgepedia.org/black-people), like her hero Kendra Rae Phillips, the first Black female editor at Wagner, who shepherded Nella's favorite book, *Burning Heart*, through the house in the 1980s before seemingly vanishing.[3](https://time.com/6312044/the-other-black-girl-review-hulu/) • [2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-09-13/zakiya-dalila-harris-the-other-black-girl-hulu) When Hazel, the eponymous other Black girl, is hired, Nella's excitement gives way to unease as microaggressions accumulate and anonymous notes instruct her to leave Wagner.[8](https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/the-other-black-girl-zakiya-dalila-harris-interview)\n\nReviewers placed the book in several traditions at once. Kirkus called it a lively tale of office politics that also works as a horror story with a conspiracy recalling the 2017 film *Get Out*, which Harris named as an inspiration alongside *[The Stepford Wives](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-stepford-wives-1975-film)*.[9](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/the-other-black-girl-publishings-a-horror-show/) • [3](https://time.com/6312044/the-other-black-girl-review-hulu/) Publishers Weekly highlighted its critique of gatekeeping in publishing and its effects on Black editors, describing a \"cheeky blend of horror, suspense, and cultural commentary.\"[10](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781982160135) • [11](https://simonandschusterpublishing.com/downloadables/79998-other-black-girl-rgg.pdf) Harris revised the book in 2020 as protests following [George Floyd](https://www.edgepedia.org/george-floyd)'s murder spread; she has said the book already carried its message about the commodification of Blackness and performative wokeness, and that the cultural climate gave her more material.[2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-09-13/zakiya-dalila-harris-the-other-black-girl-hulu)\n\n## The television adaptation\n\nBefore the novel was even published, Harris was collaborating with the actor and producer [Rashida Jones](https://www.edgepedia.org/rashida-jones) on a series-length adaptation for Hulu.[3](https://time.com/6312044/the-other-black-girl-review-hulu/) The show was developed by Harris and Jones, with Jordan Reddout and Gus Hickey as showrunners, and produced by Onyx Collective, Disney's diverse storytelling division. Harris stayed in the writers' room throughout, wrote episodes, and pitched ideas in real time; Jones was present early in development, then largely absent while shooting another show in Tokyo, returning during post-production.[2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-09-13/zakiya-dalila-harris-the-other-black-girl-hulu) • [12](https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/how-much-would-you-sacrifice-for-corporate-success-gus-hickey-jordan-reddout-discuss-the-other-black-girl/)\n\nAll 10 episodes, each about a half hour, premiered in a binge drop on September 13, 2023.[5](https://www.tvline.com/news/the-other-black-girl-cancelled-no-season-2-hulu-1235237886/) Sinclair Daniel starred as Nella and Ashleigh Murray as Hazel-May McCall, with [Bellamy Young](https://www.edgepedia.org/bellamy-young) as Nella's editor Vera, Eric McCormack as company head Richard Wagner, Hunter Parrish as Nella's boyfriend Owen, Brittany Adebumola as her best friend Malaika, and Garcelle Beauvais as Diana Gordon, the writer of *Burning Heart*.[5](https://www.tvline.com/news/the-other-black-girl-cancelled-no-season-2-hulu-1235237886/) • [13](https://www.thewrap.com/the-other-black-girl-review-hulu-onyx-collective/)\n\nThe series keeps the novel's broad strokes but changes the ending. In the book, Nella ultimately uses the brainwashing hair grease herself and becomes a lead \"conditioner\" within the organization; the finale closes with the finality of a grim horror movie. The show instead ends with Nella appearing to have assimilated, straightening her hair for a staff meeting, while a phone call to resistance allies suggests she is working to bring the organization down from the inside, leaving room for a second season.[9](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/the-other-black-girl-publishings-a-horror-show/) • [14](https://time.com/6313422/the-other-black-girl-ending-book-tv/) • [5](https://www.tvline.com/news/the-other-black-girl-cancelled-no-season-2-hulu-1235237886/) Hazel is also given a softer, more nuanced treatment, including an episode devoted to her backstory.[14](https://time.com/6313422/the-other-black-girl-ending-book-tv/)\n\n## Themes\n\nThe story examines the position of the only Black employee in a white workplace: expected to answer all questions about race, discouraged from raising objections, and pressured to code-switch. Nella's complaint about a grossly stereotypical Black character in a bestselling white author's manuscript, and her silencing by her boss, dramatizes the limits of corporate diversity rhetoric.[2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-09-13/zakiya-dalila-harris-the-other-black-girl-hulu) • [3](https://time.com/6312044/the-other-black-girl-review-hulu/) The central conspiracy, in which Black women are brainwashed into assimilating through a special hair grease, literalizes the costs of professional success purchased at the price of identity.[5](https://www.tvline.com/news/the-other-black-girl-cancelled-no-season-2-hulu-1235237886/)\n\nThe relationship between Nella and Hazel carries the book's sharpest ambiguity. Hazel urges Nella to want more and supports her promotion, while her charm with white colleagues contrasts with Nella's refusal to compromise; the story asks whether the other Black woman is an ally or a rival, and what each is willing to sacrifice to advance.[3](https://time.com/6312044/the-other-black-girl-review-hulu/) Harris has said the book also questions the \"one is enough\" dynamic in publishing, in which institutions treat a single successful book by a Black author as covering the category.[2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-09-13/zakiya-dalila-harris-the-other-black-girl-hulu)\n\n## Reception\n\nCritical response to the series was generally favorable. The season scored 71 on Metacritic, with 15 positive and 6 mixed reviews and none negative, and an 86% Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes against a 50% audience score.[6](https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-other-black-girl/critic-reviews/) • [7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_other_black_girl/s01) Critics singled out the two leads: IndieWire called it \"a faithful and gripping adaptation\" and praised Sinclair Daniel, while Variety highlighted Ashleigh Murray's ability to switch from nice to nasty.[6](https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-other-black-girl/critic-reviews/) Time's Judy Berman found the pacing slow and the genre blending hesitant, but judged the show hard to dismiss for the questions it raises about principle, compromise, and solidarity.[3](https://time.com/6312044/the-other-black-girl-review-hulu/) The Guardian praised Daniel's performance and the show's examination of the self-sacrifices involved in being Black and getting ahead, while finding the conspiracy's mechanics muddled.[15](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/13/the-other-black-girl-hulu-review-zakiya-dalila-harris)\n\nHulu canceled the series in May 2024 after one season, making the finale a series finale.[5](https://www.tvline.com/news/the-other-black-girl-cancelled-no-season-2-hulu-1235237886/) The novel has remained a reference point in discussions of diversity in publishing; a [Kensington](https://www.edgepedia.org/kensington) editor cited it in 2024 as a notable bestseller about a Black editorial assistant at a publishing house.[16](https://apnews.com/article/9a6d0c044bc2bd94fe7e98217171973b)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Zakiya Dalila Harris Discusses Hulu Series, Kirkus Reviews](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/zakiya-dalila-harris-discusses-hulu-series/)\n2. ['The Other Black Girl' on Hulu: How Zakiya Dalila Harris' life inspired it, Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-09-13/zakiya-dalila-harris-the-other-black-girl-hulu)\n3. [Hulu's The Other Black Girl Poses Tough Questions About Black Allyship in a White Workplace, TIME](https://time.com/6312044/the-other-black-girl-review-hulu/)\n4. [Zakiya Dalila Harris Talks The Other Black Girl, Esquire](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a36544516/zakiya-dalila-harris-the-other-black-girl-interview/)\n5. ['The Other Black Girl' Cancelled At Hulu, TVLine](https://www.tvline.com/news/the-other-black-girl-cancelled-no-season-2-hulu-1235237886/)\n6. [The Other Black Girl critic reviews, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-other-black-girl/critic-reviews/)\n7. [The Other Black Girl: Season 1, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_other_black_girl/s01)\n8. [The Other Black Girl: Zakiya Dalila Harris On Tackling Race, Glamour UK](https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/the-other-black-girl-zakiya-dalila-harris-interview)\n9. ['The Other Black Girl': Publishing's a Horror Show, Kirkus Reviews](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/the-other-black-girl-publishings-a-horror-show/)\n10. [The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris, Publishers Weekly](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781982160135)\n11. [An interview with Zakiya Dalila Harris, Simon & Schuster reading group guide](https://simonandschusterpublishing.com/downloadables/79998-other-black-girl-rgg.pdf)\n12. [Gus Hickey & Jordan Reddout Discuss \"The Other Black Girl\", Creative Screenwriting](https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/how-much-would-you-sacrifice-for-corporate-success-gus-hickey-jordan-reddout-discuss-the-other-black-girl/)\n13. ['The Other Black Girl' Review: Genre-Defying Drama Entertains, TheWrap](https://www.thewrap.com/the-other-black-girl-review-hulu-onyx-collective/)\n14. [Breaking Down the Ending of The Other Black Girl, TIME](https://time.com/6313422/the-other-black-girl-ending-book-tv/)\n15. [The Other Black Girl review, The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/13/the-other-black-girl-hulu-review-zakiya-dalila-harris)\n16. 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