This show is fucking hilarious.

40 Acres and a Vote?

Gotdamn they are killing it. Atlanta is good but for real ass comedy Blackish got the crown.

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when there's a lull i watch a couple episodes with the added bonus of being able to FF through the commercials.

been meaning to get around it tho

we keep it moving,

>Gotdamn they are killing it. Atlanta is good but for real ass
>comedy Blackish got the crown.

Some of the episodes are edgy as anything on tv.
Some of the episodes are LITERALLY 30 minute long commercials for Disney, lol.

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other half well shot/well acted, but generic family comedy. The season so far illustrates it perfectly. First two episodes (Disney, God) could have been on Full House. Next two episodes: 40 Acres, Who's Afraid Of The Big Black Man...Chappele show racism skewering level.

I guess its the equivalent of putting sugar in the medicine...but I wish they were more consistent as far as pushing that button is concerned.

We're in Gen Pop? Tears...

This ain't no full house, stop it.

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That ^^^^^^^ was drop dead, dumb FUNNY....

Black-Ish has been in a streak the last three episodes or so....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

she killed me on that God episode

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>Some of the episodes are LITERALLY 30 minute long commercials
>for Disney, lol.
>
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Modern Family (WASP)
Fresh off the Boat (Chinese)
The Middle(Midwestern)
The Real O'Neals(Irish + a gay kid)
Dr. Ken (Korean)
Speechless (White family + a uh...differently abled kid)

and


Blackish(Bougie Black Folks)


Is it funny? Yes.

But it's not breaking as much ground as I think we want it to.

I think this show goes deep enough considering it's a prime time comedy

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But in terms of innovative TV I don't think it's breaking any mold.

It's well written, good cast, still pretty formulaic.

whenever I see this sentiment/statement:
"But it's not breaking as much ground as I think we want it to. "

I'm like....ok, what do we want?

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They addressed police brutality while also keeping it funny at the same time.

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Atlanta feels ground breaking. We haven't really had a black show with that tenor and style before.

We've had black family sitcoms before.

I swear yall act like me not fawning over the show means I hate it.


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Where you think its gonna be about black folks's Christianity but it ended up being a very generic sitcom episode.

then you have an episode like the vote one where they make a 1 minute educational cartoon showing how fucked up America has been towards black voting rights.

Its like they have one foot in the golden age of prime tv, the other foot firmly in TGIF shows of old

Why do you think I'm hating on it because I said it's formulaic?

I think Real Husbands of Hollywoods has shitty production values, but I fucking love it.

We are allowed to critique our shows and still appreciate them.

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...and most of those shows are funny.... remember, ABC tried non family comedies and none of them lasted , even if some of them were hilarious....

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Most of those shows r not formulaic.....

I mean, Modern Family was celebrated for breaking out of the normal sitcom comedy confine....Just because it's damn near 10 years old doesn't mean it's formulaic...

And Black-ish that show had a running gag on the random pitfalls of being a black man. I mean, three black characters left a little white girl on the elevator (it's a trap!) by herself just because they knew white society would scrutinize such a happening....

Nah...that's not formulaic....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

They're breaking the mold. Hell, Modern family just fucking dropped the entire TV crew conceit pretty fast.
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>They're breaking the mold. Hell, Modern family just fucking
>dropped the entire TV crew conceit pretty fast.


They still do the TV crew conceit....I get it. When a show that was hailed as groundbreaking stays around too long its considered "A plots, B plots"....

Also, it's not about having new jokes = breaking out of the traditional sitcom mode....It's about how characters r placed under a new filter....

Black-Ish does that with a few of their breakout characters....Diane comes to mind. She's the baby girl of the family...The "Rudy"...And yet she's written as a sociopath who may or may not be the spawn of the devil....lol....Her relationship with Charlie alone colors outside the lines....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

>They still do the TV crew conceit....I get it. When a show
>that was hailed as groundbreaking stays around too long its
>considered "A plots, B plots"....

You're right they do. It just never made sense in the first place, and doesn't do a whole lot for the comedy the way it did for the office and to a lesser extent Parks and Rec. It didn't pioneer the conceit, and it isn't great at it.


>Also, it's not about having new jokes = breaking out of the
>traditional sitcom mode....It's about how characters r placed
>under a new filter....
>
>Black-Ish does that with a few of their breakout
>characters....Diane comes to mind. She's the baby girl of the
>family...The "Rudy"...And yet she's written as a sociopath who
>may or may not be the spawn of the devil....lol....Her
>relationship with Charlie alone colors outside the lines....

I agree that she's a great character, and the Charlie thing is lowkey the funniest running joke in the show.

I'm not convinced that it's doing anything more than giving us a quality family sitcom.


I mean I also like the Middle, but it's standing on Roseanne and Malcolm in the Middle's shoulders. There's nothing wrong with that.


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Listen to this man^^^^^^^^

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

That's the problem with all TV.

With the exception of sports and the occasional debate, I fully expect to catch up with everything on DVR/On Demand/Netflix.

As a result, there's no urgency to see anything.

Now I've got two dozen TV shows on my must see list.

Black-ish is one of them...

with the exception of the police episode

I'm good

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audience of old navy jeans wearers

lol @ follower

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...and let's not act like other shows didn't do edgy better or before this show.... it's definitely gotten better with time....

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...once they got more edgy and were getting praised for it, Black'ish started doing the same.... Black'ish is the bigger show though.... End of the day I'm happy for them both cause it really isn't a competition

"yes, sometimes my rhymes are sexist, but you lovely bitches and hos should know i'm tryin to correct it"- hiphopopotamus

I just wish Carmichael was good. He is the worst thing about the show IMO.

I'm a fan

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it reminds me of Roc

its good but its chasing it's IT factor and when it does get close it just kind of loses it.

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The Carmichael Show has it's moments, but like said above, Jerod is easily the weakest link in the show. He's a terrible actor. Plus, I don't like how the show is essentially a conversational-comedy. It's not plot driven in the least. There's an inciting event, and then the rest of the episode is the family sitting in that same living room debating both sides of the topic du jour. It gets old and is not creative at all. DAG and Loretta Devine are all-stars and they do the most with the material. But I feel like the show needs to expand beyond the same, tired premise each episode.

I did a podcast about The Carmichael Show earlier this year. Check it out at the links below if you're so inclined.

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I don't know much about Kenya Barris, but the Dre character seems to be him, and maybe this is part of his self-cleansing process as a cornball.

how the hell is a show the references me'shell ndegeocello and the nation of gods and earths not black enough?

do they have to be lower class to be taken seriously?

"They used to call me Baby Luke....but now? The whole damn 2 Liiiive Crew."

it's like Black folk can't accept a Black show where we aren't struggling to pay bills or being ratchet as shit.

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when I told a friend I prefer stuff like the Cosby show over TP stuff. She said the Cosby show was not the real conditions black folks..

Same folks probably enjoy every level of White TV/Cinema that they can't relate to.

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>when I told a friend I prefer stuff like the Cosby show over
>TP stuff. She said the Cosby show was not the real conditions
>black folks..


I mean forget the "real" black people stuff.....

TP is shit purely on a comedic level....It's just not funny. At all....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

actually just diane, charlie, and the grandparents >> atlanta

dude turned white guilt into popeye's fridays

but as the kids getting older some of the jokes/situations aint gonna work


atlanta falls into them weird fx network awkwardness scenes. like louie used to have.

carmichael show i only watched like twice. but that all in the family/honeymooners set up is mad stale. the parents was funny tho


i think the 2nd episode of insecure was this week, didnt catch it tho

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>actually just diane, charlie, and the grandparents >>
>atlanta

Charlie was a little shaky when he came back on but he's finding his comedic timing back.

I even like the wonderfully ignorant brother-in-law that's on this season.

I never miss an episode.

main reason Atlanta is getting the nod is because they set the bar low as shit with Glover and he flew over it.. plus its our demo as well.

Blackish had a name that made you think corny... but this shit is the truth.

Much better guest appearances and they touch on more topics.

Not really fair to compare tho because Atlanta isn't trying to be a laugh track comedy.

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the post is SUPPOSED to be about why black folk aren't watching Black'ish... I know some people can't help but compare everything, but the shows you mentioned are honestly meant for different niches of an audience, whereas Black'ish is trying to hit as many demos as it can.....

all those shows are great... Folk kill me acting like all these shows come on at the same time and you gotta choose JUST one to watch...enjoy em all son....

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i love both shows for totally different reasons and we are super fortunate to have two shows that show VERY different aspects of blackness

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but I been reading a few post talking about Atlanta being the funniest show on TV and nah, I have to disagree on that.

Enough room to watch both and enjoy for different reasons.

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>i love both shows for totally different reasons and we are
>super fortunate to have two shows that show VERY different
>aspects of blackness



^^^^^^^^

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

Blackish is currently in either it's second or third season; Atlanta hasn't even aired six episodes yet if I'm not mistaken. It isn't really fair to compared one to the other just on that basis alone.

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I personally mentioned it in my post because I think Atlanta is a type of show we haven't seen before.

Blackish is a family sitcom, it isn't a new formula. That doesn't mean it doesn't execute that formula very well. I mean I've had a cheeseburger before, but I can appreciate someone who can make a good cheeseburger because everyone can't.

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We are...u late...

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

but I'm asking the people who don't watch it.

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and I don't have some kind of analytical breakdown of what the show is or isn't or does or doesn't do. Just not funny to me. And I love Anthony Andersen in other stuff...seems like a solid enough dude. Just doesn't move me.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

Tracy tried to do a similar show with Malcolm Jamal warner it didn't even as long as Magic Johnson's late night show.

so this is a good fit.

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Miami Heat, New York Yankees,buffalo bills

Something about the show being an overt description of blackness feels uncomfortable. I am not sure if it is an explanatory situation for white people and a disclosure of our intimicies within black culture.

Then the kids are a little cheesy. I don't like any of them. I like Pops and his mom and Tracy Ross.

Not a fan of Wanda Sykes at all.

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if I'm in the room when it's on I'll watch it, but I'm not going to seek it out.

with Dre it at least gets balanced since you get to see him w/ his funny ass coworkers. i think they've shown Bo at work like twice?

the grandparents, kids and sidecharacters are a riot tho. Bo's brother They Call Me Yohann is funny af too.

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Unless they showed her in the break room or cafeteria it seems like an unnecessary expense to get a few jokes

Dre in the boardroom is easy and hilarious.

I also don't think Tracy is that funny on her own.

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and the only show that my whole family watches
it's funny
and it's smart
i didnt want to like it initially
but it definitely won me over

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