The Assistant (2023)

Writer/director Chris Stokes and his frequent collaborator Marques Houston reteamed to create some original black cinema specifically for the streaming platform Tubi. The first of four films, Assistant is about a busy doctor (Erica Mena) who hires an overly positive young woman named Annie (Parker McKenna Posey) to live in her home and help her out with all the day-to-day responsibilities. In a tale that’s old as time, Annie’s cheery optimism becomes obsession and she starts to Single Black Female her boss, flirting with the good doctor’s boyfriend while in a bra and open robe and snooping in her phone while Erica (and her butt and sideboob) take a steamy shower. That’s putting the ass in Ass-istant!