Perry continued: “The deal that he has, my first movie, it’ll be 20 years this year for ‘Diary of a Mad Black Woman.’ I called him up and said here is how you do that deal.

Despite Netflix hits and studio success, Tyler Perry is under fire for never evolving creatively or uplifting new voices.

Diary of a Mad Black Woman is available to watch on Hulu, while A Madea Homecoming is exclusive to Netflix. A fair number of Madea titles are also available to stream on Prime Video and Peacock.

Tyler Perry continues building his empire on Black pain Putting Black women through the wringer has been the mogul's business plan for 20 years, and there are no signs of stopping.

The bigger-than-life female character Perry created for the stage has been entertaining audiences and confounding critics since the first “Madea” movie, “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” hit ...

Whether it's a scorned woman dragging her cheating husband out of bed (Diary of a Mad Black Woman), a lonely mother scammed and humiliated by a younger lover (A Fall From Grace), or a bitter wife ...

Take Helen in Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005), Perry’s breakout hit. She’s a dutiful wife discarded by her rich, cruel husband for a younger woman. He literally drags her out of the house.

Across his canon, from the infamous Madea franchise to the melodramatic realms of “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” and “Acrimony” to the heartbreak endured in “I Can Do Bad All By Myself ...