'Dear White People': Creator Justin Simien goes back to class in Season 2
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It's the week that Season 2 of "Dear White People," the television continuation of the 2014 independent film, is released on Netflix, and Simien, its soon-to-be-35-year-old mastermind, has been reviewing audience scores of the debut season on Rotten Tomatoes.
While the series - which explores race relations, identity and privilege at a fictional Ivy League university - received a 100 percent fresh rating with critics, its audience rating was a more dubious 65 percent.
Questioning how many of the low scores were given by people who never actually watched the show, Simien has taken to the social media app to post some quickie videos to voice his frustrations.
"I am so tired of these [expletive] having the narrative," Simien, seated in a car, says into his camera phone and posts for his 17,000 followers to view. "Like, I saw this thing
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