Review: Why Jordan Peele Is the Perfect Heir to Twilight Zone Creator Rod Serling

It's a maddeningly familiar scenario: A young black man (Damson Idris) driving on a deserted road gets pulled over by a white police officer. "Just like we always talk about--no attitude, just be respectful," his mom Nina (Sanaa Lathan) anxiously reminds him from the passenger seat. Hoping to make it to his first day at a historically black college without incident, they endure the cop's casual racism.

It's a maddeningly familiar scenario: A young black man (Damson Idris) driving on a deserted road gets pulled over by a white police officer. "Just like we always talk about--no attitude, just be respectful," his mom Nina (Sanaa Lathan) anxiously reminds him from the passenger seat. Hoping to make it to his first day at a historically black college without incident, they endure the cop's casual racism.