stretch one week in the characters’ lives across 13 episodes<\/a>. And if Monday’s two-episode premiere was any indication, the next seven days will be some of the show’s most eventful ever, especially for\u00a0Alexis Chikaeze’s Amina.<\/p>\nDuring the premiere, Amina \u2014 who’s been upstate at the Dinsburg boarding school \u2014 unexpectedly comes home to Crenshaw, ostensibly for “Dead Week,” the week before finals at Dinsburg when all classes are canceled so students can study for their exams. But it’s painfully obvious that Amina is really home for personal reasons, and only KJ\u00a0(Nathaniel Logan McIntyre) knows what’s going on with her, as evidenced by a late-night conversation they have in the premiere’s closing minutes.<\/p>\n
“So, I’m guessing that no news wasn’t good news?” KJ asks Amina. “Dinsburg found out?”<\/p>\n
“KJ, it’s bad. It’s really\u00a0bad,”\u00a0she tearfully replies. “And I don’t know what I’m gonna do, and the minute my dad finds out, I’m done.” KJ wraps her in a hug as she cries, and… roll credits!<\/p>\n
Showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll is, of course, reluctant to share specifics about Amina’s predicament, which will unfold in upcoming episodes. The best she can do right now is tease that Amina’s secret “will end up spilling over and affecting almost everyone’s lives,” she shares with TVLine, adding with a laugh, “And that’s all I can say about that!”<\/p>\n
But Carroll can at least confirm our suspicions that Amina and KJ \u2014 who, you’ll recall, are\u00a0not dating; KJ is with\u00a0Tori (Lauryn Hardy) \u2014 have deepened their friendship in the last six months, largely due to Amina’s current dilemma. According to the EP, upcoming flashbacks will fill in the gap between Seasons 7 and 8, “and we’ll actually realize, ‘Oh,\u00a0this is how they became so close,'”\u00a0she says.<\/p>\n
“In the process of [growing their friendship], there’s been a lot of secret-keeping from others \u2014 especially Tori, who is KJ’s girlfriend \u2014 and the other close friendships in their lives,”\u00a0Carroll hints. “That starts to feel like betrayal. So there will be a lot of drama and fallout from just how close KJ and Amina have become, considering she is upstate.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following post contains spoilers for the “All American”\u00a0final season premiere. It’s going to be a very long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-524920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}