“Neither should you,” he answered. He could leave. He could ride away, ledger under arm, and let Jonas and Aria sort the politics of a vanished network. But the ledger had the names of people Zane had seen disappear—the barber on Latham Street, the baker’s apprentice who’d been quiet when rumors started again. Leaving felt like consenting to the ledger’s pattern.
Upon airing, drew mixed reviews. Mainstream critics called it "exploitative." However, within Black entertainment circles, it was hailed as revolutionary. The Root wrote: "Zane has done for cinematic erotica what Tyler Perry did for melodrama—given Black women a space to see their complicated desires unfiltered." Zane Jump Off S01e01