'Dear White People' Season 4 Ending Explained: Will everyone be friends at the end?
The fourth and final season of ‘Dear White People’ has finally been released on Netflix and the makers have given a perfect conclusion to one of the best shows of this generation. Season 4 is all about looking at how students reflect on their senior year and, we are transported to the future where a raging pandemic has made forced everyone to stay inside their houses.
All the major characters on the show – Samantha (Logan Browning), Lionel (DeRon Horton), Troy (Brandon P. Bell), Reggie (Marque Richardson), and Coco (Antoinette Robertson) – telling how the senior year went for them and how it was so traumatic for Lionel. So traumatic that he wasn’t able to complete his final installment of the book series.
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The show aptly discusses many issues in the final season like racial identity and it is truly a fitting conclusion to this extraordinary show. So, how things ended for all the characters? Let’s take a look at how ‘Dear White People’ ended.
'Dear White People' Season 4 Ending Explained
The entire premise of Season 4 is based on a musical show. As we get into the final episode of the season see Reggie receiving a bunch of tech offers from very rich tech organizations. However, she’s having doubts and asking herself if it’s the right decision to take these offers. Reggie also developed an app to track white supremacists and keep Black people informed about the racists in their vicinity.
On the evening of the musical, Lionel gets into an argument with someone, and Samantha records that conversation and mentions how this will be the highlight of the entire film that she’s going to make. To be honest, you do get annoyed when she does that, but she has been annoying since the start. However, Iesha is protesting the musical and shows how the Black community is also divided on the campus.
As he enters the hall, he receives a flood of notifications on his phone about a white supremacist on campus, following the numerous videos shared on social media earlier. But, the show begins. Reggie spots the white extremist and as he was trying to take out a gun, Reggie shoots and guns down the extremist. But, we know how Black people are treated nowadays. In the end, he was revealed as the bad Black guy with a gun in an Ivy League college.
During the final moments of the show, we are transported to the future and mini-reunion. It was so lovely to see everyone together from their Winchester days with the filmmaker couple, Sam and Gabe, Joelle, political maven Coco, industry giant Troy and of course, the author Lionel. To everyone’s surprise, Reggie also shows up at the event. Everyone is facing problems in their lives.
Lionel is having trouble with his writings while Troy has left his job. Troy’s film has bombed at the box office, which means that Sam and Lionel won’t get funding for their project. However, they end up saying that they will come together and help them. The show ends with everyone looking at the camera, smiling as they hold each other in unity.
A befitting end to a series that has shown us a lot of things since its inception. The conclusion of the show tells us how Black people still face so many problems in the 21st century and why things need to get changed quickly.
‘Dear White People’ Season 4 is currently streaming on Netflix.