Black Cake

Name: Black Cake
Released: 2023

Series

2023

TVMA

Drama

Mystery

Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with cancer, leaving a flash drive that holds untold stories that shock her children and challenge everything they know about their family’s origin.

Cast & Crew

Mia Isaac Covey

Adrienne Warren Actor

Chipo Chung Eleanor Bennett

Ashley Thomas Byron

Lashay Anderson Bunny Pringle

Faith Alabi Pearl Thomas

Glynn Turman Charles Mitch

Charmaine Wilkerson Writer (Novel)

Marissa Jo Cerar Executive Producer

Oprah Winfrey Executive Producer

Aaron Kaplan Executive Producer

Carla Gardini Executive Producer

Charmaine Wilkerson Executive Producer

Michael Lohmann Executive Producer

Marissa Jo Cerar Creator

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2023 Series 1 Season 8 Episodes

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Matt Roush says...

The title dessert is a traditional Caribbean treat, representing a melting-pot blending of global cultures. Which also describes Covey (an impressive Mia Isaac), a biracial 16-year-old in Jamaica who runs away from her arranged marriage, disappearing into the surf after the gangster groom is mysteriously poisoned. Her picaresque journey, to Europe and eventually the United States, provides the narrative thread in the eight-part Black Cake, adapted from Charmaine Wilkerson’s novel. Covey’s story is told through posthumous recordings left to her grown children, who knew their mom only as Eleanor Bennett. As Byron (Ashley Thomas) and Benny (Adrienne Warren) listen, flashbacks to Covey/Eleanor’s adventures hinge on a lingering mystery: Who killed her husband in Jamaica? The series launches with three episodes.