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With I’m a Virgo, the agitator, activist, and first-time TV creator hopes to “ramp up the contradictions in people’s lives.”

, and his years of activism and organizing, Riley has been vehement in his criticisms of capitalism and corporations. More than 20 years ago, the Coup released a song called “5 Million Ways to Kill a C.E.O.”; now, the first season ofis on the streaming service made possible by Jeff Bezos’s success.

Cootie is raised by an adoptive family; he’s prepared for an important mission; he has a rash that spreads all over his body and seemingly reveals a different physiology. Given howNo, it wasn’t my version of Superman. I start with the contradiction: What ripples does being a giant Black man cause in the world that we know? The first document I wrote talking about this show was entitled “Super Villain.” So definitely wasn’t Superman, right? In the show, he kind of becomes the villain.

All those things come from solving a problem, trying to figure out how to get this idea across. How do I make this experience that our character’s having not just information — that we know he went through this — how do I make it so that wethat? At the beginning, he’s in this house that’s too small for him, and we could get that feeling from him crouching over, but a visual registering of that comes when they’re painting part of the house yellow, so we feel it in a different way.

But she wouldn’t say it if it was going to be boring. She has the power of being really good at arguing. What does that power look like? It had to feel different than the rest of the language of the show. It would have to be stagecraft stuff that would actually feel like something new and different. I wanted us to feel like her powers were to make people understand a thing. She’s not like Professor X. Her girlfriend is able to say no, and Jones had to wait for The Hero to be willing to listen.

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