Burning Sands

Gerard McMurray brings a complicated story of fraternal brotherhood to Netflix in ‘Burning Sands’

Gerard McMurray’s complicated but utterly entertaining drama “Burning Sands,” which will debut on Netflix March 10th centers on the controversial “underground” frat hazing at an all-black college. That’s just the jumping off point. At first glance one might ask “where is the African-American unity” but just like real life, you have to peer deeper and decide to listen and to hear the words being uttered by the central characters. Through this prism of the societal construct called fraternity, we see our history reflected in shattered shards. The story opens as aspiring inductees are entering the dreaded Hell Week and being