This Salt-n-Pepa mini-series is co-produced by Queen Latifah and directed by Mario Van Peebles, yet the casting still seems to be off. How difficult is it to find people who can act and look somewhat close to the character they’re portraying? Remember the #LifetimeBeLike hashtag? 

Lifetime has a history of bad biopics. I understand people’s hunger for reminders of their childhood but this trend of biopic after biopic has to fade away at some point. Some of the biopics have come after the celebrity has died and has sparked controversy over the direction of the stories. However this Salt-n-Pepa biopic is different, they are still alive and seem to be included in the project. Maybe this will be the one where Lifetime gets it right, I doubt it but who knows?