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Like many soaps, its also a hot mess, though an ambitious and fascinating one.

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By the end of the show, it has twisted around and smashed into itself.

The setup leads to some of the shows best jokes.

Morriss scenes often repeat three times over for three swats at similar punch lines.

But if everything is heightened, then nothing is.

InWhite Girl in Dangers second act, Keesha becomes the queen bee.

The comedy turns lacerating but less contained as Jackson fires a shotgun at bougie Blackground social climbing.

The emotional stakes, however, come out more clearly here.

Theres more to explore there, but soon that writers demands get increasingly ludicrous.

By that point,White Girl in Dangerends up resemblingA Strange Loop.

Its personal, quieter, and, for all its metaness, direct.

Id like to have a pint with her in any century.