A lot of them from the 70's and 80's were quite good. A number of them starred Jim Kelly, Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, etc.., Coffy, Three The Hard Way, Across 110th Street, Black Belt Jones, etc..., were always fun to watch. TBH, I always thought the term of the genre was insulting.
I've seen a few. I can see why they were appealing, especially compared to most modern Hollywood portrayal of black men. My dad and brother constantly complain about the portrayals of black men. "Emasculation of black men" they constantly say. Even calling it an agenda. Of course, they do like a few series from Western media:
Supacell
Alex Cross (tv series)
Get Out
Evil (black male major character)
Black Panther
Atlanta
Lovecraft County
Abbott Elementary
Empire
Eric: despite a major black male character being gay, my dad really likes him. Then again, I also note that he's "ambiguous". My dad doesn't mind the masculine gay men that have a monogamous relationship and "keep it in the home". He dislikes the more flamboyant and feminine ones, especially the promiscuous ones (even worse if they bottom for non-black men).
That's from the top of my head. Most because they didn't have "worthless black men" as my dad says. I often talk with my sister that I don't know if there is an agenda to have insulting portrayals of black people, or if writers are so bad at appealing to us that people call it an agenda. For the sake of the writers, I hope it's an agenda because imagine being so bad at your job that people call it a conspiracy. It's like that time an athlete wore an outfit so trash that people called it an "illuminati humiliation ritual". 😂
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