Kenya Barris's '#blackAF' Nixes Season 2 in Favor of Two Movies Set in Key Netflix Territories

If I don’t get to see more of Rashida Jones as Joya, there is going to be hell to pay!

The movies will follow Barris and his TV family, including wife Rashida Jones, as they go on vacation, with the idea stemming from the Vacation movies that National Lampoon popularized in the ’80s, which Barris and Jones both grew up loving.

What’s particularly interesting about the two vacation movies is that they’re expected to be set in Brazil and Mexico — both of which are key territories for Netflix, which has truly embraced a global strategy in terms of production. It’s unclear whether Netflix executives approached Barris with that particular idea, but I suppose the more intriguing question is whether it was Barris’ idea to take #blackAF in the feature direction or the streamer’s (in)famous algorithm. I often wonder whether the streamer’s data can reveal that a TV show would work better as a movie, and vice versa, since a 90-100 minute movie (or two, in this case) and an eight-episode show are very different mental commitments.