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- ABC
- Sep 24, 2014
- ABC
- Sep 24, 2014
Summary Andre 'Dre' Johnson (Anthony Anderson) tries to impart his family's heritage to his four children while living in the suburbs while facing conflicting ideas from his wife (Tracee Ellis Ross), his very opinionated father (Laurence Fishburne), and his own children.
Created By: Kenya Barris
- ABC
- Sep 24, 2014
- ABC
- Sep 24, 2014
Summary Andre 'Dre' Johnson (Anthony Anderson) tries to impart his family's heritage to his four children while living in the suburbs while facing conflicting ideas from his wife (Tracee Ellis Ross), his very opinionated father (Laurence Fishburne), and his own children.
Created By: Kenya Barris
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Generally Favorable
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
77
87% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
13% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Black-ish, is fun, cool, and hip. It just so happens to also have a lot going on upstairs.
While the big set pieces are very funny, there are too many lulls between them. But odds are you'll come away believing the show will get better and hoping it does--because TV will be all the better for it.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 99 User Ratings
6.1
58% Positive
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16% Mixed
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26% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 99 User Ratings
6.1
58% Positive
57 Ratings
57 Ratings
16% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
26% Negative
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
This is a hilarious show, and one of, if not the best comedy on TV, if you appreciate this type of humor. However, it is not meant for everyone. It is has tons of racist jokes and foul language, but that just so happens to make it more entertaining and enjoyable each episode. I look forward to this show every week for 30 minutes full of laughter.
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SEASON 1
The series has transformed from hokey formula into one of the goofiest, most reliably enjoyable comedies around.
It's hard not to compare the comedy to past shows such as "The Bernie Mac Show" and "The Cosby Show" and rightfully so. Black-ish continues the momentum these shows started and brings in issues of this generation.
As Pops, the sitcom cliche of grumpy old grandpa, Laurence Fishburne (most recently on “Hannibal” and billed here a special guest star) squeezes every line until it coughs up a laugh.
In all, black-ish is Everybody Hates Chris meets Modern Family, but not quite as funny as either. Well, not yet, at least.
In the pilot, the writing hews toward the obvious and predictable, perhaps in part because it’s racing along to establish the premise.
From executive producer Anthony Anderson and co-creator of America's Next Top **** this is a good show finally we did not get a new black show like Meet the Browns or House of Payne
and thank god this show is not produced by Tyler Perry , Anyways this show is full of black humor and it is hilarious a great family picture Modern Family + Family Guy = Black ish a great show. Grade B
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SEASON 1
Better than I expected. Not as good as it should be. Laurence Fishburne is very good as the philosophical and realist Grandpa. The rest of the cast seems to a bit from the always be desperate school of acting -- especially the unknown-to-me actor playing the Father.
It's probably worth a couple of more looks to see what develops. Be known -- this is not the Cosby show!
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SEASON 1
The show is a good idea in concept, but is very poor in execution. There is a lot of rich material they could mine if they would just use a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer.
The premise is fine, but the scripts are hackneyed and the jokes very on the nose. The plots are weak and serve only to highlight what the lead character Dre believes is his ongoing struggle to balance his bourgeois adult success with his childhood cultural roots that can only be described as "keepin' it real". Every episode turns on this premise, and that has quickly become tiresome. Equally tiresome is the cartoonish way in which the white characters are presented, as idiots either striving cluelessly to act black, or being so over the top in their whiteness that they become mere caricatures rather than people. Maybe that's well-deserved payback decades in the making, but broad stereotyping was not funny then, and it's just as not funny now.
The performances by the parents are uneven, and of the children, only the eldest daughter knows anything about timing, emphasis and modulation, and she's only average. The others are stiff ad wooden, and deliver their lines as though they are reading them off a teleprompter the first time they ever see them. You might give them a pass because they're children, but compare them against the (even younger) girl who plays Lily on Modern Family, and the kids on black-ish come up very wanting.
I would express some hope that the show can iron out these considerable kinks and evolve into producing more realistic plots with more natural performances appropriate to the situation. But given that Larry Wilmore is the executive producer, and that everything he does outside of the Daily Show is itself far too earnest and far too on the nose, I guess I'll have this cut this one loose. Maybe I'll sample it in Season 2, should it make it that far, to see whether it has improved. I'm not holding out much hope for that.
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SEASON 1
The positive reviews for this show seem to stem from a generation of people eager to accept ANYTHING with black people involved.
The writing is completely lacking in originality and devoid of humor, it swings from one stereotypical "black joke" to the next, with no comedy driven by character interaction, so in it's own circle of hypocrisy the show itself is offensive and racist. The only positive thing to say about this show is that the cast are all entirely capable of believable performances.
Honestly I could only recommend this show to white hipsters who are filled with glee at the sight of any black actor or actress gracing their screen.
That's not to take away from the fact that Anthony Anderson is a very talented man with excellent comedic timing, and genuine acting ability.
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