I’m old. I remember my friends and I making copies of “The Spirit of Christmas” and giving them to each other during the Summer of 1997. So needless to say, we were psyched to hear it was going to be an actual TV show.

Ok. I’ll tell you why I think its a bad thing. Because instead of representing an original film taken from a myth or fairy tale from Africa, they still have a black woman representing a really badly executed copy and paste remake from a better film which is based on a fairy tale from Europe? So people can crow about “representation” in this movie all they want, but in the end, European culture is what is actually being represented while African culture is being ignored. Because a shitty remake is safer than showcasing African culture.