-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Black-ish S3 |OT| Something Better is Coming (Charlie's baaaack)
- Thread starter WedgeX
- Start date
- Status
While watching this episode it had me wondering if the audience maybe got caught off-guard by the transition from sitcom into a 2 minute history lesson.
This show can get away with it since it's usually bold like that but I remember those kinds of scenes happening at the very beginning of the episode.
I liked it a lot myself.
This show can get away with it since it's usually bold like that but I remember those kinds of scenes happening at the very beginning of the episode.
I liked it a lot myself.
They at least did it once before with the history of voter suppression and there are probably others. New viewers might be caught off guard but it doesn't seem too surprising at this point I think. I actually like it.
Tizoc
Member
Season 3 has been my fav. so far, each episode has been fantastic and entertaining.
The Zoe and twins scene was rather nice and dang did she do a fanatstic job with their room.
Jack continues to be adorable and Diane is...Diane.
Also I could've EASILY made a presentation on the MS Surface and I don't even own one.
The Zoe and twins scene was rather nice and dang did she do a fanatstic job with their room.
Jack continues to be adorable and Diane is...Diane.
Also I could've EASILY made a presentation on the MS Surface and I don't even own one.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Charlie...just stays slayin left and right. The show feels so empty when he's not in an episode.
I love Bow's brother too. He's awesome.
I love Bow's brother too. He's awesome.
I'm impressed at how well Daveed is nailing that role.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
I hope he stays on the show. The character seems exactly like the person in real life. I've seen him on some talk shows, and he's just chill as hell.
Also, I think this episode may have been influenced by him, just flipped upside down. Daveed says he never really had an identify crisis and was raised Jewish. But I imagine that writers looked at that and his life and flipped it around for Bow to write this episode.
In any case, what I thought started out as a very weird episode (I thought Bow was being a hypocrite and borderline racist) flourished when Ruby opened Bow's eyes up to the issue being Bow's personal struggle. Well done, Ruby.
BLACK JESUS!
LilWayneSuckz
Member
How was she being borderline racist? It's understandable that Bow as a black woman would feel some kind of way about Junior dating a white woman since he's dating someone who is totally unlike her and has not had to deal with the identity issues that she has faced in her life.
The episode is influenced by the identity crisis that mixed (half black/half white) people deal with in the United States. They may have two loving parents who are one white and one black but society sees them as black, not half white and half black. Tracee Ellis Ross has a white father and has surely also encountered this issue in her life.
I honestly loved Bow, her brother, Ruby, and parts of Dre's storyline, but I could have done without the kid's room storyline.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Well, I expected Bow to be extremely understanding off the get go. She comes from a mixed childhood. And with that background, and her very liberal perspectives, I immediately thought she was going to be perfectly fine with it. I don't know. I just feel like people who expect others to stick to the clan are narrow minded individuals. If the script was flipped and this was a white family show with a half-black/half-white mom and a son brought a black girl and the mother reacted the same way, hell I'd find that racist, as well.
Like I said, the impression conveyed at FIRST was confusing and I thought was totally out of character for Bow. I just didn't understand why she reacted that way. But when they laid down the identity crisis issue, it made all the sense.
Black-ish returns tonight at 9:30!
Just in time to fill the void in all our lives.
The AV Club has been infrequently and inconsistently watching and reviewing the show. However, the last review they did was an A for Being Bow-racial.
Just in time to fill the void in all our lives.
The AV Club has been infrequently and inconsistently watching and reviewing the show. However, the last review they did was an A for Being Bow-racial.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
They never showed it on air. Charlie basically mentioned it once that she's the devil and it went on from there in the 1st season. I think Charlie babysat them once?
Hilarious episode, though.
Junior and Charlie are the show.
Tizoc
Member
I thought this was a decent episode.
We must NEVER know.
The Charlie/Diane feud must NEVER be explained.
It is glorious because of that.
We must NEVER know.
The Charlie/Diane feud must NEVER be explained.
It is glorious because of that.
Tracee Ellis Ross came out with a win at the Golden Globes last night for best lead actress in a musical or comedy tv series.
Anthony Anderson had been nominated for best lead actor, and the show as a whole for best musical or comedy tv series.
Anthony Anderson had been nominated for best lead actor, and the show as a whole for best musical or comedy tv series.
After playing Strange Fruit they can't be too woke.
Over all it was what it needed to be for the people that need it
I mean it has a point
And it's something we will all need to come to peace with at some point, but man when Dre was talking about a country that hates ya... still how I feel
His speech at the office is probably the best, most realistic, feeling I have felt watching a TV show ever honestly.
This is also true.
That speech was the realist ever given on tv. It was chilling
Tizoc
Member
Whatd do u mean? Do u mean that u didnt know there was an ot for the series, or that thete was a thread about the new episode?
Didnt know there was an OT for the series.
Tizoc
Member
It is fine to make anthread about a certain episode or event, one was made for the obama episode from s2 as well
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Daveeed is back!! I'm so happy.
Loved this episode. Had tons of laughs. Daveed unawarely in a pyramid scheme got me. LMAO
Edit: Also this episode uses the two most over used phrases "crushing it" and "killing it" in a purely satirical way put a smile on my face. I work with people who say that shit all the time, and I want to punch them.
Loved this episode. Had tons of laughs. Daveed unawarely in a pyramid scheme got me. LMAO
Edit: Also this episode uses the two most over used phrases "crushing it" and "killing it" in a purely satirical way put a smile on my face. I work with people who say that shit all the time, and I want to punch them.
So apparently they are looking into a Different World-esque spin-off with Zoey.
http://tvline.com/2017/01/19/blackish-spinoff-yara-shahidi-zoey-college-abc/
http://tvline.com/2017/01/19/blackish-spinoff-yara-shahidi-zoey-college-abc/
Is Marissa Tomai busy?
I'd watch it. What did Different World spin from? Never watched it.
This sounds great.
The Cosby show
Whooooooaaaa
Thank you. I feel I should have known this lol
- Status