One of Them Days Review: SZA & Keke Hustle Hard for Rent
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What’s worse than being nearly broke? Finding out you might also be homeless if you don’t pay your rent in nine hours, especially when you thought you already paid it, only to discover your friend’s squatter boyfriend stole the money instead of handing it over to the landlord! Singer SZA makes her acting debut in the 2025 comedy ‘One of Them Days’, where she plays waitress Dreux, while Keke Palmer is her best friend and flatmate Alyssa (the one who gets conned by the boyfriend).
Dreux and Alyssa have only nine hours to find rent money, or they’ll be kicked to the curb, so the girls desperately run around town trying to make quick cash, which includes selling their blood, seeking out suspicious loan sharks, and unwittingly getting involved with dangerous gangsters. It’s definitely ‘One of Them Days’ where things just keep getting worse and worse. And while some of their shenanigans are comedic, a lot of it isn’t all that funny.
About 1 hour and 37 minutes long, ‘One of Them Days‘ is largely driven by the charm of lead girlies SZA and Keke Palmer, both of whom look stunning and are quite hilarious as the bumbling girlfriends trying to scrounge up rent money. Keke’s Alyssa is the dumber, boy-crazy one, an aspiring artist with no paying job, while SZA’s Dreux is smarter, hard-working, and earnest, though she gets tongue-tied in front of her crush. Towards the end, the two friends team up to rip off bougie white folks by selling them overpriced artwork, which is probably one of the funniest subplots in the film.
Well, ‘One of Them Days’ is obviously a no-brainer comedy, relying on familiar stereotypes and caricatures to push the plot forward. Much of the humor feels outdated, like it was made in the ’90s, and even though the script features a few chuckle-worthy moments, there are too few laugh-out-loud scenes for a comedy flick. Watch it only if you’re a fan of the lead actors. They certainly have the right screen presence and I’d definitely watch them if they’re featured in another comedy as friends.
Rating: 2 stars on 5. ‘One of them Days’ is on Netflix.
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