Tyler Perry’s ‘Divorce In The Black’ Earns Amazon Record Of New Subscriptions

Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black may have been critically panned , but it still found a way to make history. Variety reports that Perry’s latest film was responsible for driving more new Prime Video subscriptions to the platform—the most among any Amazon-MGM-produced projects to date.

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Additionally, the film has reportedly drawn an immense viewership, clocking in at 498 million minutes watched in the first four days of the movie’s life on the platform. Divorce in the Black arrived at No. 3 on Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming chart for the week of July 8-14 streaming window, falling short of Netflix’s Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F and Paramount’s If.

Divorce in the Black was released on July 11 and has become one of the Louisiana native’s most polarizing films to date. The film was panned by critics, arriving with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes —the lowest score a Tyler Perry movie has ever received.

The Prime Video exclusive stars Megan Good and Cory Hardrict as a couple who has recently split. Ava (Megan) is a banker whose marriage to an abusive husband, Dallas, falls apart. As Ava attempts to move on, Dallas vows to make her life hell. As stated in VIBE’s “ Tyler Perry’s 6 Best And Worst Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes” list , critics weren’t impressed with the cast’s acting, Perry’s directing, and the soap opera drama that felt “flat.”

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“When you see a title like Divorce in the Black appear underneath a Tyler Perry byline, you assume this is a more not-so-clever wordplay that clumsily states the obvious,” Andrew Lawrence of the Guardian said about the film. “A woman takes her no-good ex to the cleaners before riding off into the sunset. But this new Amazon Prime feature doesn’t just fail to live up to that billing. It’s easily his worst film to date.”

“Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black feels pieced together from several conflicting scripts, making it almost impossible to follow the film’s weighty emotional throughline,” Mary Kassel of Screen Rant opined . “ What could be a sincere take on the experiences of people in cycles of abusive relationships becomes a story that pivots in tone so many times, it’s hard to take seriously.”

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