A group of four friends follow their dreams after graduating from college together.
Stars: Meagan Good, Jerrie Johnson and Grace Byers
Full Cast: Shoniqua Shandai, Tyler Lepley, Whoopi Goldberg, Sullivan Jones, Juani Feliz, Jonathan Burke, Kate Rockwell, Christine Jones, Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Ali Harris, Robert Richard, Rana Roy
Episode Guide
Season 2
February 23, 2023Episode 8 Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy
February 23, 2023Episode 7 Fall Back to Rumspringa Forward
February 16, 2023Episode 6 Out of the Deadpan and into the Fire
February 9, 2023Episode 4 Baby and the Bath Water
February 9, 2023Episode 3 As Assist from the Sidelines
February 2, 2023Episode 2 If You Can't Say Anything Nice...
February 2, 2023Episode 1 Takesie Backsies
Season 1
Best Harlem Episodes
Top 20 (Ranked)
December 2, 2021
6.8 58 votesS1E2 Saturn Returns
6.8 58 votesS1E2 Saturn Returns December 2, 20216.8 55 votesS1E10 Once Upon a Time in Harlem
6.8 55 votesS1E10 Once Upon a Time in Harlem December 2, 20216.8 54 votesS1E3 Rainbow Sprinkles
6.8 54 votesS1E3 Rainbow Sprinkles December 2, 20216.6 53 votesS1E7 The Strong Black Woman
6.6 53 votesS1E7 The Strong Black Woman December 2, 20216.6 49 votesS1E4 Winter Solstice
6.6 49 votesS1E4 Winter Solstice December 2, 20216.5 47 votesS1E5 Boundaries
6.5 47 votesS1E5 Boundaries December 2, 20216.2 46 votesS1E6 Cuffing Season
6.2 46 votesS1E6 Cuffing Season December 2, 20216.1 49 votesS1E8 Five Years Ago
6.1 49 votesS1E8 Five Years Ago February 23, 20230.0 0 votesS2E7 Fall Back to Rumspringa Forward
0.0 0 votesS2E7 Fall Back to Rumspringa Forward February 16, 20230.0 0 votesS2E6 Out of the Deadpan and into the Fire
0.0 0 votesS2E6 Out of the Deadpan and into the Fire February 9, 20230.0 0 votesS2E4 Baby and the Bath Water
0.0 0 votesS2E4 Baby and the Bath Water February 9, 20230.0 0 votesS2E3 As Assist from the Sidelines
0.0 0 votesS2E3 As Assist from the Sidelines February 2, 20230.0 0 votesS2E2 If You Can't Say Anything Nice...
0.0 0 votesS2E2 If You Can't Say Anything Nice... February 2, 20230.0 0 votesS2E1 Takesie Backsies
0.0 0 votesS2E1 Takesie Backsies February 23, 20230.0 0 votesS2E8 Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy
0.0 0 votesS2E8 Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy Harlem Trailer
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User Reviews
Watchseries; Great storyline, keeps your interest and funny too. Great cast. I love the individual characters and how they blend their friendship. I've Binge watched over two days. I can't wait for season two.
Great storyline, keeps your interest and funny too. Great cast. I love the individual characters and how they blend their friendship. I've Binge watched over two days. I can't wait for season two.
Harlem watchseries. Think sex in the city, but with main characters that are LGBTQ. Whether it's a show you enjoy will depend on your tolerance level. The pace of the show is fine and the storylines are good; however, if you can't handle sexually explicit language or gay main characters, you may want to watch something else.
The premise of this show is GREAT! The talent is awesome. However, the scripts make some of the characters-Camille and Quinn-*VERY* immature. I could accept their immaturity were the characters in their early 20s; these women are supposed to be in their 30s. By the time women are in our mid-30s, the hunt for a partner isn't our sole goal in life. At least, that's true for Black professional women. These women act like they're in high school. They only talk about MEN! It's embarrassing.
I don't want to give this show a bad rating because there's so much potential here. But the characters are all wrong. It isn't the actors' fault. They're engaging, talented and beautiful. It's the script. I get the impression Ms. Oliver and Mr. Daniels are trying to make the Black Sex in the City. I didn't like the WHITE Sex in the City! It only made me vow to not hang out with heterosexual white women.
What I want to see is Black professional women who've learned from life and are still rocking it like the bosses they are. There's too much effort put into being humorous and not enough put into character development that's real and age appropriate.
I have to compline Meagan Good. I thought she was far too . . . Religious, conservative and aloof in real life to play a character like Camille. But I have to say I'm very pleasantly surprised. Grace Byers was also a pleasant surprise. I honestly didn't recognize her. I *LOVE* her new look! I've always thought she was beautiful, but she is infinitely more attractive with longer hair. I didn't recognize her until I looked the show up on IMDb.
Ms. Oliver definitely got the butch lesbian right. I've dated women like Tye and been friends with even more. Jerrie Johnson is a treat! And, she's gorgeous and has definite screen presence.
Even with the program's faults, I'm still committed to watching a second season. I'm sure it will be better once the show gets their sea legs.
I really like Harlem! It's nice to see professional Black women. I just wish it wasn't so copycat and formulaic. It's like a blend of Insecure meets SITC. I honestly would like to see more originality in our writing. Of course it's very sexy, chock full of beautiful people in all shades and of course there are a couple of gratuitous sex scenes. I just wish the colorism wasn't so strong. Typical with many Black shows, the actors and they're related storylines are typecast based on their skin tone. Light skin = close to white - wealthy and pure, and dark skin = unreliable, sex crazed and anything goes. Angie's character is particularly problematic for me, especially this one very uncomfortable segment where she goes looking for a mandingo. There's no other word to use for it so it is what it is. Also, the use of N word really needs to go. That's the reason I stopped watching Insecure and if the writing isn't any better with this show, I'm out! Shame on Amy Poehler for producing a show that doesn't have better quality writing than that. Black women of any age understand the harm of the N word and Beeatch and we have more class than that. Black women are dogs. At the same time, I have to say that I like most of the other characters, even if it does often feel like tinted SITC, just louder and more expressive. The comedic parts are really funny and even though it sometimes feels preachy with awkward product placement (eating Doritos in a white coat???), I'm still very excited about this show and it's potential. I've been watched the entire season today. And I look forward to S2.
66yr old Black woman of Queens origin..not Harlem...Watched 4 episodes of Season 1 and will finish watching...... after I write this.
Good acting..Good script. Beautiful successful professionals of various shades...3 straight 1 lesbian...
The Bad - What motivates these women? What is the driving force?
Can't be "man"!!!!!!!
They need growth..needs maturity..
Bring some of the sophisticated essence of women of Harlem back in the day into the storyline... i.e. Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Etta Moten Barnett.... Let us see some of them in the eyes of these modern day women...
Sex and the City? Insecure? Golden Girls? Friends? Girlfriends?.....Maybe..
I look forward to seeing where these women go.
This show is very predictable and I feel as though it could've been a movie, but it is a fun watch. Each episode is like a chick flick so it's lite hearted even with the bad acting. Also, I love that Jerrie Johnson!