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    Can Spike Lee's 'She's Gotta Have It' reboot keep up with the strong TV women he helped make possible?

    by Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times Nov 27, 2017 3 minutes

    Netflix's reboot of Spike Lee's 1986 breakthrough film, "She's Gotta Have It," occupies an odd space of being both timely and dated.

    It arrives as women's issues and bigotry are front and center in the media and entertainment but also draws from an era when ideas about sexual harassment, gender roles and systemic racism were less explored on screen.

    The 10-episode series, which premiered Thursday, follows the same basic story of Lee's film: Aspiring Brooklyn artist Nola Darling is

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