Mara Brock Akil strikes again. This time, the beloved creator of iconic series like Girlfriends , The Game , Being Mary Jane , Love Is and more is putting first love on full display and reimagining Judy Blume’s novel Forever … for the titular Netflix series . “Judy writes from a place of truth, honesty, nuance and detail, and from the first time reading her books — I think I started with Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret — she snatched me,” Akil told Blavity’s Shadow and Act. “It was grounded. It was at my eye level. It was the characters set on their own spine, and it made me see them, and it made me feel seen because she was really in the details and the scope.” She added, “That was one of the biggest things that I wanted to translate in this version of it, the reimagining. I wanted to have scope and scale, the epicness of love, and then the intimacy of love, which is about those details. And I think when you are that caring in crafting it, it allows people to settle in because...