“Pivoting” premiered in January of this year, and it starred Maggie Q, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Eliza Coupe as three Long Island women coping with the death of their childhood friend. Per the official synopsis, their manner of coping involved hitting the reset button and pivoting to new life paths through “a series of impulsive, ill-advised and self-indulgent decisions.”
How Our Kind of People would have continued
“Our Kind of People” starred Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, Morris Chestnut, and Joe Morton, among others, with Dacosta playing Angela Vaughn, billed by Fox as “a strong-willed, single mom” who was “out to reclaim her family’s name” after she discovered a dark secret about her mother’s past that would shake up a wealthy community. Inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s 1999 book, “Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class,” the series was set “in the aspirational world of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, a historical stronghold where the rich and powerful Black elite have come to play for more than 50 years.”
The cancellation of “Our Kind of People” may be particularly vexing for some viewers, since the first season ended on a cliffhanger, with Ellis’ character, Leah, taking a bullet meant for her dad, Terry, played by Morton. Had the show come back for a second season, Gist seemed to indicate that Leah would have only been injured, not killed. She said:
