The road to “Demascus” — premiering Thursday on Tubi — runs through AMC, which had commissioned the series and then, though a six-episode season was completed, declined to air it. Not being privy to any boardroom discussions or the thoughts of executives and accountants, I won’t claim to know why that was — most everything these days is a calculation instead of a gamble. But simply as regards its quality, AMC was wrong and Tubi is right.

Created by playwright Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm (“Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies”), it sits alongside some of the most interesting series of the last several years — comedies from Black creators that mess with form and time and space and reality — “I’m a Virgo,” “Government Cheese,” “The Vince Staples Show” and “Atlanta” and the cartoons “La

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