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- Netflix
- Apr 17, 2020
- Netflix
- Apr 17, 2020
Summary The family comedy loosely based on the life of creator Kenya Barris, with Barris playing a fictionalized version of himself and Rashida Jones as his wife Joya, who raise six children together.
Created By: Kenya Barris
- Netflix
- Apr 17, 2020
- Netflix
- Apr 17, 2020
Summary The family comedy loosely based on the life of creator Kenya Barris, with Barris playing a fictionalized version of himself and Rashida Jones as his wife Joya, who raise six children together.
Created By: Kenya Barris
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Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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44% Positive
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22% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
58
44% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
33% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
22% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
The cast handles the whip-smart dialogue perfectly. It’s hardly a surprise Barris and Rashida Jones are terrific, but it ain’t easy finding a half-dozen young to very young actors who are so authentic, so skilled at comedic timing, so good at creating original characters who are believable even in his heightened comedic atmosphere. And oh, the subjects “#blackAF” tackles with hilarious, unblinking truth and humor.
It seems like anything can happen on #blackAF. It’s that kind of unpredictability and refreshing tone that make the idea of future #blackAF seasons exciting—as long as Barris continues to follow the advice his character gets from Tyler Perry: “Tell your own experience. Can’t nobody tell you how to be you.”
User Score
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Based on 24 User Ratings
5.1
50% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
8% Mixed
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2 Ratings
42% Negative
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10 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 User Ratings
5.1
50% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
8% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
42% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
First 2 episodes are really exhausting and bad. But after you go whith meta flow of the show you find a really good reflexion on Hollywood blackness and the concept lead to a lot of funny situation. Episode 5 really hit me. Blackish is way better but i really like the show.
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SEASON 1
I guess I am in the minority here. My wife and I really enjoyed this. Its quick witted, funny. For a first season I thought it was great.
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SEASON 1
It’s the Curb Your Enthusiasm to Black-ish’s Seinfeld, with monologues interspersed throughout that tackle fraught issues within the black community, like materialism and fatherhood. These interludes can be illuminating, but they—along with the framing device and too many tired family-sitcom plots (e.g., Mom and Dad do drugs)—slow the already languid pace. More engaging are scenes that depict Barris’ professional life. ... Barris’ Larry-David-like self-awareness lends authenticity to his performance. Even if it takes another season to perfect, #blackAF feels substantial enough to justify the investment.
“#blackAF” is funny and audacious in many of the same ways [as “black-ish”] — “Curb Your Enthusiasm” to its predecessor’s “Seinfeld.” But there are an awful lot of echoes and repetitions: themes that might have been explored on “black-ish,” story lines and character dynamics that already were explored on “blackish.” “#blackAF” finds its voice immediately. It takes longer to suggest its purpose — that is, what Barris can say here that he couldn’t and hasn’t already.
“#blackAF” is a messy show about the mess of making television. ... The other seven episodes blur into one another, lacking story or situation. I couldn’t get enough of Jones as a loving, self-absorbed, rich-bitch mom, and I will never complain about a Nia Long cameo, especially one in which she’s playing a hustler publicist. But “#blackAF” desperately needs fewer riffs and an expanded character universe to leaven its atmosphere of crushing self-indulgence.
It feels like a kind of confessional — although it rarely rises above surface-level self-aggrandizing — and it meanders due to the absence of a clearly expressed series arc. ... Except for the occasional one-liner that lands, it’s just not funny, and is often tedious to watch.
“#blackAF” is the most outright mean-spirited series about family life in memory, and one that seems driven by an impulse toward revealing the worst possible side of Barris’ comic avatar, one that makes the show feel at times cruel to watch.
I love Black-ish and Girls Trip and enjoy Grown-ish. This is first thing Kenya Barris has done that I’m not a big fan of. It’s got its moments, but there’s a lot of awkward preachy or poorly edited sequences.
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SEASON 1
Yeah this show isn’t it man and even the title isn’t fitting. The story is just weird and is basically bright people trying to prove their blackness in various ways, but doesn’t have a audience. Plus for a show to be called Black*F, their is no brown nor dark skins smh. Just another Blackish, smh
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SEASON 1
Some video clips of a man being a bad, rude and dumb parent but absolutely not in a funny way, and some other people moving their limbs around and talking cringe. All the modern elements like vertical videos, Instagram posts and stuff about technology are so unnatural. There is no link between the stuff we see in the chaotic first 90% of an episode and the very allegedly-wholesome last 10%. Even the names of episodes are trying to hide under the racial inequality which felt like the only spot left to hide for such a terrible work, believeing (rightously) hopefully that the racial inequality is a fact that shouldn't be questioned (again, rightously, don't get me wrong).
Low.
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