Which Twin Brother From 'Sinners' Is Sexier: Smoke or Stack?

WARNING: This article contains lots and lots of spoilers about the film Sinners.

People have been talking about the film for many reasons. The performances by the entire cast. The fact that writer-director Ryan Coogler has delivered yet another banger that has left critics and audiences feeling incredibly satisfied. (I already know that there will be one or two naysayers who will gripe about Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but considering the tragic and heartbreaking circumstances that Coogler, his cast, and his crew were dealing with while making the film, it still turned out to be a lot better than expected.)

Sinners cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw being the first female cinematographer to shoot a movie with IMAX film cameras. The already legendary scene of Sammie performing at Club Juke, and calling forth the past and the future of Black music while doing so. The film’s much-appreciated obsession with cunnilingus. The Native American demon hunters who gave the husband-and-wife Klan members one warning about them having a vampire in their home (who probably devoured that couple’s baby like he was Ben Wyatt eating a calzone, and if you’re reading this and saying, “What baby?” Keep in mind that when Remmick first reveals himself as a vampire to Joan after feeding on Bert, he’s sitting next to a baby carriage), and then made the swiftest of exits right before sunset.

Whether or not Grace is to blame for Remmick and the rest of the vampires getting into Club Juke and making everything so much worse. Mary asking Stack if she wants her to spit in his mouth while they’re having sex, and Stack gladly saying yes. (If you’re a Puritanical teen or twentysomething who doesn’t like sex scenes in the movies they watch, Sinners is most definitely not the movie for you.) Stack walking around in 1992 with his Coogi sweater on like he’s The Notorious B.I.G., with Mary right beside him looking like Ariana Grande before she remembered she was a white woman. Tom Cruise (the actor best known for loving popcorn movies popcorn), seeing the film and giving it his seal of approval.

They’ve also talked about how certain entertainment reporters have been on some bullsh-t regarding Sinners and its box office prospects. How they’ve written articles about its successful opening weekend, while also implying that the film has a long way to go before it can even be considered profitable for Warner Bros. (Such questionable feedback from the media got so much attention that Ben Stiller, Kristen Schaal, and Patrick Schwarzenegger said something about it on Twitter.) About how studio execs all over Hollywood are not entirely pleased with the deal that Coogler negotiated for himself, in which the rights to Sinners would revert to him in 25 years, a deal that is no worse or different than other deals that have been offered to other directors who have the complexion for the protection. Just this past weekend, Sinners made history yet again by not only being the number-one film at the box office for the second week in a row, taking in $45 million, but also having the smallest second-week drop at the box office in motion picture history, thanks to extremely positive word of mouth.

If you’ve been talking about Sinners over on Bluesky, you may have noticed that among the Black users of that social media app (also known as Blacksky), at least one particular topic of conversation has been brought up. That topic? Which of the Smokestack Twins is the most attractive and the sexiest, Smoke or Stack?

For some, their preference is for Smoke. Brooding, serious, the strong and silent type, fiercely protective of Sammie, and of anyone else he cares about, and someone who does not f-ck around when it comes to handling his business, as seen when he busted a cap in the ass and knee of the two men who tried robbing his truck, and at the end of the film when he single-handedly took on a dozen Klansmen with rifles, grenades, and Tommy guns to make them all regret setting foot on his property. (The fact that Smoke was sweaty and wearing a tank top that showed off his arms while firing that Tommy gun was just a delicious bonus.) It also didn’t hurt to see him expressing his love and adoration for Annie, and both characters expressing their desire for one another in a sex scene that featured Michael B. Jordan and Wunmi Mosaku, the latter being a full-figured, dark-skinned Black woman, a demographic that is incredibly marginalized when it comes to being allowed to show their beauty onscreen, and are often pushed aside for other actresses who fall in to the “But Not Too Black” category.

For others, they’re all about Stack. Playful, charming, quick to flash a smile, quicker to tell a lie for his survival or his amusement, and eager to have a good time while making sure that others are having one as well. The fact that he is clearly a freak, judging from his advice to Sammie about how to give Australian kisses, as well as how Mary’s drooling wasn’t enough to deter him from wanting to sleep with her, right before letting her spit in his mouth, Disobedience-style. (Don’t even think of clicking on that link unless you’re absolutely sure that you have some privacy.) Despite his fun-loving, mischievous nature, Stack is just as ruthless and protective when it comes to protecting those he cares about and making it clear to his enemies that he is not to be messed with. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned from the women in Black Twitter (and these women have said this themselves), there’s just something about an attractive Black man with a Southern accent rocking some grills or some gold teeth that can make the most fiercely independent Black woman turn into a complete and utter bird. (Just ask those who saw Trevante Rhodes in Moonlight.)

Some people on Blacksky went back and forth on which twin they would choose. As soon as Smoke would say or do something that would make them immediately go, “Raw, next question!” Stack would come along onscreen to snatch that crown for himself, and vice versa.

And then we have certain heathens on social media with no preference for either Smoke or Stack, and who made it crystal clear that they wouldn’t see any point in choosing between them, because they would just ride the train all the way to the Eiffel Tower with both twins, and without any hesitation.

Yes, there are far more important things than this I could write about for Pajiba that you could be reading. Yes, there are some of you who are reading this anyway, and probably thinking, “What’s the difference between them? They’re twins,” so I’ll just assume that you didn’t grow up watching Sister, Sister and having the occasional debate as to whether Tia or Tamera Mowry was the superior twin. (The answer is clearly Tia, and this is not up for debate.) If you fall into either one of those categories, please keep in mind that this is the same website whose writers expressed their lust and desire for Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and where we’ve also discussed how ridiculous it is that Batman isn’t allowed to go down on Catwoman, and compared hotness levels of young Al Pacino and young Robert De Niro. So we’re not new to this, we’re true to this. But here’s hoping that reading this about Sinners and its fans is a welcome distraction from the fact that every 70mm IMAX screening for the film has been completely sold out all week long, and will be until Thunderbolts* — for better or worse — claims those screens for itself. Along with all of the Sinners fanfic that is certainly being written and posted on Archive of Our Own and on Tumblr at this very moment.