Sheltered from the world in an Oakland compound built by his protective aunt and uncle (Carmen Ejogo and Mike Epps), he’s ushered into the outside world by normal-sized youths Jones (Kara Young), Felix (Brett Gray) and Scat (Allius Barnes). He’s Cootie, redefining the idea of growing pains at a height of 13 feet. Jharrel Jerome, Emmy winner for playing one of the teens in Ava DuVernay’s 2019 Central Park jogger series When They See Us on Netflix, is a teen again here. The seven-episode Prime Video original is shaggy fun, even for a viewer like me who is old, White and gay and definitely not the show’s natural target demographic. Virgo is a mess, but that’s not exactly a criticism - “mess” is in the show’s DNA. Writer-director Boots Riley’s superhero sociopolitical fantasy I’m a Virgo is so chock-full of playfulness and invention, it hardly matters that its politics are blunt and its ideas, if sometimes valid, are naïve.
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