According to Variety, FX’s most recent docuseries Dear Mama opened on an extremely high note as the network revealed that the series debuted with the platform’s most-watched premiere for an unscripted series ever. The series aired on the platform on April 21st and the next day was available to stream on Hulu, which generated the record-setting premiere.
According to Variety, the five-part docuseries by director Allen Hughes (Dead Presidents) follows Afeni and Tupac Shakur as it explores the lives of mother and son. Afeni was a renowned revolutionary and was a feminist leader in the 70s amidst the Black Panther movement. Tupac was a rapper who became a political visionary and one of the greatest rap artists in history. The show’s official descriptions state, “Their story chronicles the possibilities and contradictions of the United States from a time of revolutionary fervor to Hip Hop culture’s most ostentatious decade.”
Nick Grad, President, of FX Entertainment said, “It’s only fitting that Allen Hughes’s definitive piece on Tupac and Afeni Shakur delivered a record performance for us and it speaks to Tupac’s enduring legacy. Allen’s examination of Tupac viewed through the prism of his mother Afeni is a fascinating take that really gets beneath the education and experience that shaped his life and inspired him to become one of the greatest artists ever.”
According to Variety, Hughes serves as an executive producer, writer, and director on the series, along with executive producer and writer Lasse Järvi (Surfwise). The series has many more executive producers such as Quincy Delight Jones III (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), Staci Robinson (The Bounce Back), Nelson George (Brooklyn Boheme), Charles D. King (Fences), Peter Nelson (An Eight Is Enough Wedding), Adel Nur (Amsterdam), Jamal Joseph (August Rush), and Ted Skillman (American High).
Dear Mama is available to stream on Hulu.