[s2e3] Is The Total Black, Being Spoken May 2026

Jimmy Ryan finds himself facing problems that are significantly more dangerous than his own guilty conscience. Title Significance: " Coal " by Audre Lorde

The episode follows several intersecting storylines in 1990s Boston: [S2E3] Is the Total Black, Being Spoken

The poem also touches on how words are "coloured by who pays what for speaking," reflecting the social and economic power structures that influence how marginalized voices are heard or silenced. Jimmy Ryan finds himself facing problems that are

The line "I / Is the total black, being spoken" suggests that the speaker's identity is inseparable from their Blackness and that this identity is forged and expressed through language. [S2E3] Is the Total Black, Being Spoken

The episode title references the core metaphor of Lorde's 1968 poem: