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Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Laurence Fishburne star in this sitcom. An advertising executive (Anderson) and his physician wife (Ross) move to a predominately white suburb on the eve of the husband's new promotion. Wackiness ensues.
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Just based on the pilot, it's cool so far. I had already seen lots of the jokes/punchlines from the preview clips/ads, so I wasn't surprised by a lot. I was amused, if not fall-on-the-floor-laughing. But I hope that it maintains its momentum to be a fun sitcom that manages to make some social observations on race/class along the way. Looks like Anderson's character works at an advertising agency. So it looks like there's lots of opportunity for satirical ads to be created in-show.
..Seems like too many kids, with four. But hey, we'll see.
Rainbow: "...let's have some white yogurt.."
Jack & Diane (Youngest two): "Yayyyy!!!!"
(just plain yogurt? at their age? bleh..)
The Andre/'Andy' sequence kind of fell flat with me. An alternate scenario could have been amusing, say if the son's name were spelled phonetically, and got detention for mouthing off to a classmate (or a teacher?) who initially insists that his name is "spelled wrong" ("Andray"!?!?!) Or maybe they could have called him Deondre and made a recurring joke among all the suburban-folk who ask him what the "D" stands for... (never mind, I'm spitballing..)
...I'm not sure if the Fishburne character lives in the family home or not.
I dug the aside when Andy's friend casually starts fishing through the refrigerator, to dad's consternation...
... we haven't seen Rainbow's parents yet (wonder which parent is black? Heh.)
side observation for future shows:
Pops (Fishburne): "we're black, not African... they don't like us, no-way..."
maybe eventually they can explore "intra-cultural" issues among suburbanized black folks; in Andre and Rainbow's social circle of color, is there anybody who's from an immigrant African, Caribbean, background, etc.? Do they even share Andre's "we're losing touch..." angst?
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Just based on the pilot, it's cool so far. I had already seen lots of the jokes/punchlines from the preview clips/ads, so I wasn't surprised by a lot. I was amused, if not fall-on-the-floor-laughing. But I hope that it maintains its momentum to be a fun sitcom that manages to make some social observations on race/class along the way. Looks like Anderson's character works at an advertising agency. So it looks like there's lots of opportunity for satirical ads to be created in-show.
..Seems like too many kids, with four. But hey, we'll see.
Rainbow: "...let's have some white yogurt.."
Jack & Diane (Youngest two): "Yayyyy!!!!"
(just plain yogurt? at their age? bleh..)The Andre/'Andy' sequence kind of fell flat with me. An alternate scenario could have been amusing, say if the son's name were spelled phonetically, and got detention for mouthing off to a classmate (or a teacher?) who initially insists that his name is "spelled wrong" ("Andray"!?!?!) Or maybe they could have called him Deondre and made a recurring joke among all the suburban-folk who ask him what the "D" stands for... (never mind, I'm spitballing..)
...I'm not sure if the Fishburne character lives in the family home or not.
I dug the aside when Andy's friend casually starts fishing through the refrigerator, to dad's consternation...
... we haven't seen Rainbow's parents yet (wonder which parent is black? Heh.)
side observation for future shows:
Pops (Fishburne): "we're black, not African... they don't like us, no-way..."
maybe eventually they can explore "intra-cultural" issues among suburbanized black folks; in Andre and Rainbow's social circle of color, is there anybody who's from an immigrant African, Caribbean, background, etc.? Do they even share Andre's "we're losing touch..." angst?
