Fans since season one will remember that color theory is kind of our jam, but we haven’t had good color commentary in awhile. Well fear not this movie is chock full of wonderful and beautiful color metaphors for us to unpack. This week we discuss Tessa Thompson’s 2010 movie, For Colored Girls. Based on a choreopoem by Ntozake Shange, this movie is an original member of the Tortured Poets Department (sorry, Taylor). 

CW: adultery, rape, homophobia, sex, domestic violence, abortion, coerced abortion, child molestation, death of a parent, sexual assault, murder, unplanned pregnancy, vomit, violence, PTSD, death of children, blood, religious extremism