Hulu’s football docuseries “Algiers, America” reaches both an emotional and musical peak in its fifth and final episode. As the students of Edna Karr High School near graduation, one of their classmates, Keyron Ross, is killed by gun violence.
The series profiles the New Orleans high school’s football team while also looking at the reality of gun violence, which has caused the players to lose both family members and teammates. For the show’s score, composer Chad Cannon threaded in a whirlwind of sound and emotion, with Labrinth’s “Euphoria” soundtrack serving as inspiration in the way that it fuses gospel, orchestral and electronic music. The importance of music in the series was particularly highlighted during Ross’ funeral.
“The Keyron Ross funeral scene is truly heartbreaking. This is when [assistant coach Shakiel] gives a powerful performance of ‘Just a Closer Walk With Thee,’ which is commonly performed at ‘jazz funerals’ in New Orleans,...
The series profiles the New Orleans high school’s football team while also looking at the reality of gun violence, which has caused the players to lose both family members and teammates. For the show’s score, composer Chad Cannon threaded in a whirlwind of sound and emotion, with Labrinth’s “Euphoria” soundtrack serving as inspiration in the way that it fuses gospel, orchestral and electronic music. The importance of music in the series was particularly highlighted during Ross’ funeral.
“The Keyron Ross funeral scene is truly heartbreaking. This is when [assistant coach Shakiel] gives a powerful performance of ‘Just a Closer Walk With Thee,’ which is commonly performed at ‘jazz funerals’ in New Orleans,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
As a country, America has yet to solve its ongoing problem with gun violence. Hulu is looking to investigate those issues from a new perspective in its new series “Algiers, America: The Relentless Pursuit,” debuting Wednesday, April 19. Filmed at a predominately Black high school in New Orleans, this series follows the school’s football team through a season as it attempts to overcome issues of gun violence, crime and other social issues. You can watch Algiers, America with a 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu.
How to Watch ‘Algiers, America: The Relentless Pursuit ’ Premiere When: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Where: Hulu Stream: Watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu. 30-Day Free Trial$7.99+ / month hulu.com About ‘Algiers, America: The Relentless Pursuit ’ Premiere
“Algiers, America” chronicles the journey of Coach Brice Brown and the Edna Karr Cougars – a predominantly Black high school in Algiers, New Orleans – as they chase their future, their dreams,...
How to Watch ‘Algiers, America: The Relentless Pursuit ’ Premiere When: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Where: Hulu Stream: Watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu. 30-Day Free Trial$7.99+ / month hulu.com About ‘Algiers, America: The Relentless Pursuit ’ Premiere
“Algiers, America” chronicles the journey of Coach Brice Brown and the Edna Karr Cougars – a predominantly Black high school in Algiers, New Orleans – as they chase their future, their dreams,...
- 4/19/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
Hulu’s ‘Algiers, America: The Relentless Pursuit’ Shows the Hardship of High School Football (Video)
“There’s no other public school and no other African American coach having the level of success that Brice Brown is having,” but in TV Insider’s exclusive extended trailer for the Hulu docuseries, it takes more than success for the high school football team at Edna Karr to survive the streets of New Orleans. Andscape’s five-part documentary Algiers, America: The Relentless Pursuit follows the high school football team at Edna Karr in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans. The program produces numerous top athletes, with dozens of seniors awarded full scholarships to play football at D1 colleges annually. Furthermore, it is also crucial to save young lives from the devastating gun violence that plagues their community. The team’s top running back is even said to have played a game despite having a bullet lodged in his leg. “The Edna Karr High School football team is the pride...
- 4/18/2023
- TV Insider
Hulu’s list of new releases for April 2023 don’t feature many blockbusters, but if we dig a little, I’m sure we can find some gems.
Perhaps the most promising items are on the TV side of things. Tiny Beautiful Things premieres on April 7 and stars Kathryn Hahn as “a floundering writer who becomes a revered advice columnist while her own life is falling apart.” That will be followed by comedy Am I Being Unreasonable? on April 11 and two documentaries: high school football story Algiers, America (April 19) and Tupac Shakur piece Dear Mama (April 22).
The best TV candidate this month, however, is probably Saint X on April 26. This series, told via multiple timelines, “explores and upends the girl-gone-missing genre as it explores how a young woman’s mysterious death during an idyllic Caribbean vacation creates a traumatic ripple effect that eventually pulls her surviving sister into a dangerous pursuit of the truth.
Perhaps the most promising items are on the TV side of things. Tiny Beautiful Things premieres on April 7 and stars Kathryn Hahn as “a floundering writer who becomes a revered advice columnist while her own life is falling apart.” That will be followed by comedy Am I Being Unreasonable? on April 11 and two documentaries: high school football story Algiers, America (April 19) and Tupac Shakur piece Dear Mama (April 22).
The best TV candidate this month, however, is probably Saint X on April 26. This series, told via multiple timelines, “explores and upends the girl-gone-missing genre as it explores how a young woman’s mysterious death during an idyllic Caribbean vacation creates a traumatic ripple effect that eventually pulls her surviving sister into a dangerous pursuit of the truth.
- 4/1/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
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