Selah and the Spades writer and director Tayarisha Poe created something special. And not just because her film left Joi, Ro and Shanna collectively thinking Rian Johnson's Brick and Roger Kumble's Cruel Intentions had a baby. And that kid's a special kind of rowdy. Selah and the Spades has style, movement, and grace. It reorients common issues like, power and loyalty, into a contemporary high school setting perfect for playing out its themes.
Selah and the Spades, "the kids party different now" Set in an elite Pennsylvania boarding school, Selah and the Spades introduces its audience to a high school underworld fraught with dangers; seen and unseen. This boarding school has five dominant factions within its student body, The Prefects, The Sea, The Skins, The Bobbies, and The Spades, that control the social strata. Selah Summer (Lovie Simone) leads the Spades with her second-in-command, Maxxie (Jharrel Jerome). With a the market on illegal drugs and alcohol, the Spades feed the stud
