- 10.0/101 votes
#1 - Fits & Starts
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/2005
Maya remarries, Toni demands a divorce, Lynn gets engaged and Joan freaks out. After a passionate reunion, Maya asks Darnell, "Now what?" The pillow talk is even more delicate at Joan's place. Having wound up in bed with William, Joan is unable to relax and consummate their On-again, off-again romance. William fears her reticence is "physical proof we don't belong together."
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Writer: Mara Brock Akil
- 7.0/101 votes
#2 - Hour One: Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/22/2017
A white teenager is killed by a black cop during a police shooting, leading an expert investigator and a special prosecutor to examine the case and grapple with media attention, public debate and the social unrest.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Writer: Gina Prince-Bythewood
- 7.0/102 votes
#3 - Everybody Hates the Laundromat
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/2005
While Julius and Rochelle go shopping for a new TV, Chris has to take his warring siblings to the laundromat. Then things take a turn for the worse when Tonya storms out.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Writer: Kriss Turner
- 6.7/1020 votes
#4 - First Light
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/7/2018
Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson – two teenagers from very different backgrounds, find themselves burdened and awakened to newly acquired superpowers which are mysteriously linked to one another. The only constant in their lives is danger and each other. Tandy can emit light daggers and Tyrone has the ability to control the power of darkness. They quickly learn they are better together than apart.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Writer: Joe Pokaski
- 1.0/101 votes
#5 - Mother and Son
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2022
Mamie Till Mobley, a young mother living a simple life in Chicago, begrudgingly lets her adventurous 14-year-old son, Emmett, go on vacation with his great uncle and cousins to Mississippi. Days after his arrival, tragedy strikes and Mamie is faced with a mother’s worst nightmare when her son goes missing.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Writer: Marissa Jo Cerar