Write On with 'Reasonable Doubt' Showrunner Raamla Mohamed

From Little Fires Everywhere writer Raamla
Mohamed, Reasonable Doubt follows Jax Stewart (Emayatzy
Corinealdi), a fearless defense attorney in Los Angeles who bucks
the justice system every chance she gets. Mohamed comments on how
the show deals with its deeply complex protagonist: "The show is
through Jax's eyes and her experiences and what she's doing, and
as you can see, she has different relationships with different
people, so people are getting parts of her. But [in] the show...
we get to see all the parts." 


Mohamed goes on to discuss her choice to have an all-Black
writer's room for the show: "95% of my characters on the show are
Black, and they're all different types of Black, and I realized I
need to be able to have conversations without having to explain
to one half of the room what we're talking about - let's just cut
the shorthand so that we can actually have conversations...
[about] relationships and traumas and love and work and pressures
and microaggressions... I was trying to just make it more
comfortable and easier."


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