After fascinating audiences with season one among “BMF,” the dramatized retelling of how two Detroit brothers (Demetrius “Huge Meech” and Terry “Southwest” Flenory) created one among America’s most infamous and influential crime households, Starz is giving the real-life story the documentary therapy.
“The BMF Documentary: Blowing Cash Quick” remembers the epic rise and fall of the notorious Black Mafia Household, aka the huge empire that rose from the streets of Detroit and fashioned some of the notable drug-trafficking networks within the nation. With tales from associates, insiders, Flenory relations, and celeb figures, the eight-part docuseries covers the complete arc of the Black Mafia Household’s story we’ve but to listen to straight from direct sources.
Main as much as “BMF”‘s second season, which stars Huge Meech’s son, Demetrius “Lil Meech” Flenory Jr., as himself and premieres in January, Starz is rolling out half-hour episodes of a documentary that walks viewers by way of the Flenory brothers’ early Detroit days, the Black Mafia Household’s rise within the early ’80s, their peak within the late ’90s, and their downfall in 2006. The docuseries additionally contains an replace on the place the group and a few of its key gamers are at this time — together with Huge Meech, who lends commentary all through the documentary as he continues to serve his 30-year sentence at an Oregon jail.
Meech and Terry have been each arrested by the DEA in 2007 for the group’s drug operations. In June 2021, The Detroit Information reported {that a} federal decide lowered Meech’s sentence by three years, so he is anticipated to be launched someday in 2028. Terry, who additionally acquired a 30-year sentence, was launched on house confinement in 2020 as a part of a broader effort to mitigate the unfold of COVID-19.
To this point, Starz’s “BMF” drama has solely scraped the floor of the Black Mafia Household’s story, as season two is predicted to lastly dig into the group’s enlargement to Atlanta. However if you cannot await the dramatized sequence’s 2023 return, learn forward to seek out out all the brand new revelations we have realized from “The BMF Documentary” to this point.
