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Series Overview

DELINQUENCY is a prestige crime & political drama centered on a power couple navigating the fault lines between community activism, criminal enterprise, and public office. Aiyden Betts appears to be a tireless community leader and family man, but behind the scenes he has built a quiet criminal network to fund his vision of change. His wife, Samali, is a rising political force whose name and image are being positioned for real power.

When Samali’s spotlight grows brighter, the shadows Aiyden has lived in start closing in. The very money and muscle that built their outreach programs now threaten to unravel their marriage, their reputation, and their community. As their worlds collide, every choice costs something — and someone.

Expanded Logline

He built a legacy in the dark — she’s stepping into the light. When his wife’s political star rises, a community savior with a criminal empire must bury the truth before it buries them both.

World & Themes

Set in Los Angeles, DELINQUENCY lives at the intersection of street power, city hall, and family life. The series explores how race, class, and access collide, and how far people will go when the systems meant to protect them are the same ones boxing them out.

Themes include political ambition vs. community accountability, love vs. loyalty, the cost of double lives, and the truth that almost everyone is a delinquent in some way — in the streets, in boardrooms, in politics, or at home.

Series Overview

Set against the Golden Age of Jazz and the harsh reality of Jim Crow, HARMONIC IN BLACK follows Blade Calloway, a former bootlegger from Mobile, Alabama, determined to trade in illegal hustle for lasting legacy. In a world where Black art fills the airwaves but racism rules the streets, Blade fights to build a Black-owned jazz club in Los Angeles’ Central Avenue scene.

Caught between Italian organized crime, crooked cops, a reckless younger brother, and a past tied to a shadowy network known as The Guild, Blade must decide how much of his soul he’s willing to spend to own a piece of the American Dream. Glitz, sweat, gospel, gin, and gun smoke collide in a series where music is freedom, history has teeth, and survival comes at a cost.

Why This, Why Now?

At its core, HARMONIC IN BLACK is an American Dream story told through a lens history rarely centers: Black genius and Black struggle in the shadow of Jim Crow and the Great Depression. The series is built on five principles that still define the dream today — opportunity, ownership, economic prosperity, freedom and individualism, and education — but it refuses to pretend those things have ever been evenly available.

Through Blade’s fight to legitimize his dream, the series asks: What does it cost to own anything in a world designed to deny you ownership?

The World & The Guild

The story moves between Harlem and Los Angeles at a time when Black art is exploding and Black lives are heavily policed. Two clubs anchor our world: Il Sogno Nero, Domenico Bellini’s elite jazz club and criminal front, and Calloway’s, Blade’s Black-owned, Black-centered jazz temple that becomes the pinnacle of Black expression along Central Avenue.

Beneath the clubs is The Guild — a network formed to protect Black neighborhoods and stand up for Black rights when justice systems failed them. Opponents branded them the “Black Bandit Guild” to criminalize their influence, but to the people they served, they were protection when no one else showed up. Their presence, and potential return, loom as a force that may be called on again as Blade and Bellini collide.

Blade Calloway

Blade Calloway is a former bootlegger trying to turn a life of risk into a legacy of ownership. Charismatic, calculating, and dangerous when pushed, he’s the kind of man people follow even when they shouldn’t. To his younger brother Travis, Blade is Superman — unfortunately, Travis imitates his worst impulses, not his best.

Blade’s past with The Guild, his entanglements with Bellini, and his responsibility to his family collide as he builds Calloway’s. When the bill for his choices comes due, he’ll have to decide which part of his past to resurrect and what he’s willing to sacrifice to protect the future he’s trying to build.