I Binged 'Hoochie Daddies' And Here's Why You Should, Too

The Tubi reality competition series centers members of the Black queer community who often aren't in the spotlight.

It’s best that you turn the volume way up when watching “Hoochie Daddies,” a reality competition show streaming on Tubi.

Created, produced and hosted by Crystal Hutchinson aka Wootie, the series is set in Jacksonville, Florida, and is described as “eight masculine-identifying women all living in the same house” who must “complete a series of challenges to become the ultimate Hoochie Daddy.”

The challenges range from the cast members competing to see “who can collect the most numbers from girls on a beach the old-fashioned way, using paper and pen” to designing T-shirts that say “Hoochie Daddy” to a contest to find out who can do planks the longest.

Each contestant scores points that are calculated on the “Hoochie Daddy Scoreboard.” The person with the most points at the end of the entire season wins. The prize, in addition to the title of Hoochie Daddy, is a chain and a trip to Jamaica.

Say what you will about Tubi, but as someone who intimately knows how difficult it can be to get a show centered on Black LGBTQ folks, the network has provided space where others continue to lag behind. I am not surprised that it has taken this long for a show like this to exist, but I am relieved that it does.