Yet instead of a series continuing the story about the male leads, as the studio had suggested, the producers opted to shift the focus to Cephas Jones’ Ashley, trying to get by living in California’s Bay Area after her partner Miles is imprisoned for selling drugs.
Ashley winds up moving in with his hippy-ish mother , whose vocation is online sex work.
As it happens, “Blindspotting” arrives the same weekend as “In the Heights,” a movie adaptation of Miranda’s pre-“Hamilton” musical, which stars another “Hamilton” veteran, Anthony Ramos.
The movie also served as a reminder of the abundant talent that Miranda and his collaborators assembled in the Broadway production, which clearly wasn’t lost on Hollywood.