Why ‘Harlem’ is ‘Girls Trip’ Screenwriter Tracy Oliver’s Most Personal Project Yet

variety.com:

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Harlem,” streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.Tracy Oliver’s “Harlem,” a 10-episode half-hour series for Amazon Prime Video, is the latest in her signature line of comedies that center on a group of Black female friends.

But this is the one that started it all, according to the “Girls Trip” screenwriter, and the one that is most personal to her.“I wrote it before ‘Girls Trip’ came out.

This is why this is such a passion project and so close to me. I wrote this for free; I wrote this because I had to — at that moment there was just something in me that needed to write something so personal,” Oliver tells Variety.Although “Harlem” follows a.