| The Best Man: The Final Chapters | |
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| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Created by | Malcolm D. Lee |
| Based on | Characters by Malcolm D. Lee |
| Developed by | Malcolm D. Lee & Dayna Lynne North |
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| Music by | Robert Glasper |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
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| Cinematography | Greg Gardiner |
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| Running time | 41–56 minutes |
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| Network | Peacock |
| Release | December 22, 2022 (2022-12-22) |
The Best Man: The Final Chapters is an Americancomedy-drama television miniseries created byMalcolm D. Lee and developed by Lee and Dayna Lynne North.[1] The series takes place a few years afterThe Best Man Holiday, itself a sequel toThe Best Man, and it premiered onPeacock on December 22, 2022.[2][3]
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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| 1 | "Paradise" | Malcolm D. Lee | Malcolm D. Lee & Dayna Lynne North | December 22, 2022 (2022-12-22) |
| 2 | "The Wedding" | Malcolm D. Lee | Malcolm D. Lee & Dayna Lynne North | December 22, 2022 (2022-12-22) |
| 3 | "Brown Girl Dreaming" | Robert Townsend | Lori Lakin Hutcherson | December 22, 2022 (2022-12-22) |
| 4 | "The Invisible Man" | Malcolm D. Lee | Ayanna Floyd Davis | December 22, 2022 (2022-12-22) |
| 5 | "The Party" | Charles Stone III | Teleplay by : Cameron Johnson & Lori Lakin Hutcherson Story by : Cameron Johnson | December 22, 2022 (2022-12-22) |
| 6 | "An American Marriage" | Robert Townsend | Wayne Conley & Zoe Marshall | December 22, 2022 (2022-12-22) |
| 7 | "Things Fall Apart" | Stacey Muhammad | Nicole Amarteifio & Dayna Lynne North | December 22, 2022 (2022-12-22) |
| 8 | "The Audacity of Hope" | Malcolm D. Lee | James Bland & Malcolm D. Lee | December 22, 2022 (2022-12-22) |
On February 9, 2021,Peacock gave production a limited series order consisting of ten episodes. It is created byMalcolm D. Lee and Dayna Lynne North who are also executive producing it.[1] Filming for the limited series began on March 14, 2022.[4] It was filmed in New York City, New Jersey, and Dominican Republic.[5] The series is set to be released on Peacock on December 22, 2022, with all eight episodes instead of the original ten-episode order.[3] The limited series picks up a few years afterThe Best Man Holiday.[2]
Upon the limited series order announcement,Morris Chestnut,Melissa De Sousa,Taye Diggs,Regina Hall,Terrence Howard,Sanaa Lathan,Nia Long, andHarold Perrineau are set to reprise their roles from 1999's filmThe Best Man.[6] On April 29, 2022,Nicole Ari Parker,Ron Canada,Brandon Victor Dixon,Michael Genet, Yvonna Pearson, Aaron Serotsky, Terrence Terrell,Tobias Truvillion, and Eric Scott Ways joined the cast in recurring roles.[7]
Thereview aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes reported a 91% approval rating with an average rating of 8/10, based on 11 critic reviews.[8]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 58 out of 100 based on 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[9]
