Perry feigns engagement with serious themes, such as racial profiling, media manipulation, domestic violence, and policing, but uses them as if they are Play-Doh.

For a while, his latest motion picture, Tyler Perry’s Duplicity, seems to root itself in a level of gritty realism that feels semi-respectful, as the community is shaken by the senseless killing of an innocent bystander named Rodney (Joshua Adeyeye) by a white police officer (Jimi Stanton) who suspected he was carrying a gun,

Tyler Perry's 'Duplicity' is now streaming on Prime Video. Poor, disaster-prone red states would likely be hit hardest if the federal government withdraws funding Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s secretary of defense,