At the start of Spike Lee’s 1986 breakthrough debut, “She’s Gotta Have It,” the artist Nola Darling (Tracy Camilla Johns) sits up in bed, filmed in cool black and white. “I want you to know,” she says, “the only reason I’m consenting to this is because I wish to clear my name.”

At the start of Spike Lee’s series “She’s Gotta Have It,” arriving Thursday on Netflix, the artist Nola Darling (DeWanda Wise) sits up in bed, filmed in bold color. “I would like you to know,” she says, “the only reason I’m doing this is ’cause folks think they know me. They think they know what I’m about, and the truth is, they don’t know me.”

It’s the same, but different: sharper, more pointed. “She’s Gotta Have It” is full of quotes, from literature, music, history — above all, from “She’s Gotta Have It,” the film. (The song “Nola,” written for the film by Bill Lee, the director’s father, is not only the series’ title music but also Nola’s ringtone.)

But the 2017 model is more than the sum of its references. More expansive than interior, more defiant than dreamy, it’s a vibrant if uneven work in heated conversation with itself.