A viral TikTok meme becomes a feature-length movie in Terri Jo: Missionary in Miami, a Tubi original that brings a next-gen dude-in-drag comedy off an app and to, well, a different app. In 2022, comedian Kelon Campbell, better known as Psyiconic, put on a wig, dress and cross necklace and created Terri Joe, a character spoofing racist, homophobic White Southern women who are really super into Jesus. A few million followers later and Terri Joe gets her own movie, which we worry might suffer from Saturday Night Live syndrome, where the transition from short-form comedy to long-form feature tends to be problematic.
The Gist: I’m struggling slightly with the conceit here: Coleman is a large Black man in drag playing Terri Joe, who looks in the mirror and sees a petite blonde White girl. But what do the other characters see? A White girl or a Black man? Terri Joe’s
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