Plot details are under wraps for now, but the first followed best friends and roommates Dreux (Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) on a slapstick odyssey through South Los Angeles as they attempted to make their rent on time before being evicted from their apartment. The R-rated comedy was a smash success at the box office, earning over $50 million worldwide on a $14 million budget. Per Variety, the movie also spent three weeks in Netflix’s top 10 list when it hit streaming.
In her B review of One Of Them Days for The A.V. Club, Natalia Keogan found the film charming despite its formulaic tendencies: “Palmer and SZA’s chemistry is remarkably natural. Pairing a performer as reliably entertaining as Palmer alongside a newcomer is risky on its face, but SZA slithers into the film’s slapstick sensibility with a necessarily self-effacing confidence,” she wrote, adding that when the film premiered amid the L.A. wildfires One Of Them Days served “as an unexpected ode to the tenacity of its residents.”
Singleton told Variety that being on set in her hometown was “so surreal”: “It was just like, ‘Wow, they really let us shoot a movie in the Jungles. That’s crazy.’ I never take it for granted when something that I’ve written becomes [a real project],” she said. “My hope and prayer is, with a story like this and with the excitement around it, that it gets more studios excited to invest in these kinds of stories again. I do have more stories to tell, and I hope that it gets a little easier every time—in terms of the amount of time that it takes. I hope that we all begin to see the value and demand.”
