Nick Taylor

Awesome flick! It will take several viewings to fully unravel things.

I am a Blackish fan btw. I really enjoyed the show. I watched it before reading any reviews and I’m glad that I did. It seems that the negative reviews all had the same gripes: they didn’t understand the concept (it borrowed heavily from Curb), had an issue with casting (Rashida is half, Kenya’s real wife is very fair and the kids were cast to look like his own children) or they couldn’t relate to their lifestyle (they are a wealthy power couple who lives in a very nice home and have wild amounts of disposable income). Joya’s struggles as someone who isn’t accepted in either world, so she overcompensates was well-written and reminded me of people I have known in life and even some of my family members. Also, Kenya’s obsession with shoes and using fashion to fill a whole in his heart really hit home as I am also a shoe fiend. Lastly, the examination of the mini cadres and shifting alliances seen in large in families was really interesting as well. Aside from the character study-related stuff the show was laugh out loud funnyaf! We as a community hate to be seen as a monolith, but every time someone creates art that is seen as something that doesn't mirror ”the normal black experience” folks tend to pile on with the same criticisms of a show or movie being unrealistic or ”unrelatable”. Please take this show for what it is: a bit of escapism, with great writing and interesting characters. The black experience is as varied as peoples’s gumbo recipes and I wish we would stop trying to play “I’m blacker than thou” all of the time and instead embrace all of the various types of the black experience in America.