#BlackAF - Netflix TV Series (Kenya Barris & Rashida Jones/April 17th)

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She's not a bad actress, but to me, her character is just like all of the rest your typical black mom, or black woman characters on TV playing in a main role of the show. The character has no sense of control, in her case, motherhood, she's prissy, still wanna seem young and attached to the youth, wanna be edgy. It's like I've see this character or her character play out so many times when it comes to black shows. She's no different from Issa off Insecure other than being lightskin and close to 40, They both arr literally the same character/person from two different shows. wtf man Interchangeable ass pieces

Clair Huxtable, Florida Evans, Harriet Winslow, Vivian (The dark one) all were different sets of characters for each of their respectable shows.

Jojo, this character fits your typical black character, black woman character that's on these TV shows nowadays. All black moms are not like her in real life

Someone tell me I'm wrong and just overreacting
 

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I loved the show. I wish that OUR people could get past they're feelings and correlate the joke with the title. Understand that the characters look extremely similar to his real fukking family and appreciate the unfiltered openness of the conversations.

I could see if he was Sambo-ing on some bullshyt, but he even attacks himself in his writing. There are so many videos attacking the show without even watching it, it's ridiculous.

Imagine if we said Will and the Banks wasn't a real representation or Martin was an overexaggeration who had to chase the light skin chick. All before watching the show.

I watched the entire first season of Empire and made a decision to throw that shyt in the trash. It got worse with the agenda and stereotypes over time and I couldn't get with, but I gave it a chance without prejudging.

Rant over
 

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I loved the show. I wish that OUR people could get past they're feelings and correlate the joke with the title. Understand that the characters look extremely similar to his real fukking family and appreciate the unfiltered openness of the conversations.

I could see if he was Sambo-ing on some bullshyt, but he even attacks himself in his writing. There are so many videos attacking the show without even watching it, it's ridiculous.

Imagine if we said Will and the Banks wasn't a real representation or Martin was an overexaggeration who had to chase the light skin chick. All before watching the show.

I watched the entire first season of Empire and made a decision to throw that shyt in the trash. It got worse with the agenda and stereotypes over time and I couldn't get with, but I gave it a chance without prejudging.

Rant over
It's just clout chasing. I think Kenya kinda baited them into that shyt to.
The show is funny, I mean legit Laugh Out Loud funny. And that's rare for a sitcom type set up for me. I didn't watch Blackish but the quality of this makes me want to check it out.
 

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I loved the show. I wish that OUR people could get past they're feelings and correlate the joke with the title. Understand that the characters look extremely similar to his real fukking family and appreciate the unfiltered openness of the conversations.

I could see if he was Sambo-ing on some bullshyt, but he even attacks himself in his writing. There are so many videos attacking the show without even watching it, it's ridiculous.

Imagine if we said Will and the Banks wasn't a real representation or Martin was an overexaggeration who had to chase the light skin chick. All before watching the show.

I watched the entire first season of Empire and made a decision to throw that shyt in the trash. It got worse with the agenda and stereotypes over time and I couldn't get with, but I gave it a chance without prejudging.

Rant over
There's a false narrative being going around on twitter about "new black shows being made for white people" without ever actually watching them.
 

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show was funny; i'm not sure why it's getting so much hate. me and da wife enjoyed it. will definitely check out another season if they make one.

They’re hating because they don’t get the title. And woke blacks love to complain about colorism

But the entire premise of the show is basically a satire people just take it too seriously without watching it and enjoying for the actual story
 

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I loved the show. I wish that OUR people could get past they're feelings and correlate the joke with the title. Understand that the characters look extremely similar to his real fukking family and appreciate the unfiltered openness of the conversations.

I could see if he was Sambo-ing on some bullshyt, but he even attacks himself in his writing. There are so many videos attacking the show without even watching it, it's ridiculous.

Imagine if we said Will and the Banks wasn't a real representation or Martin was an overexaggeration who had to chase the light skin chick. All before watching the show.

I watched the entire first season of Empire and made a decision to throw that shyt in the trash. It got worse with the agenda and stereotypes over time and I couldn't get with, but I gave it a chance without prejudging.

Rant over

There's a false narrative being going around on twitter about "new black shows being made for white people" without ever actually watching them.

They’re hating because they don’t get the title. And woke blacks love to complain about colorism

But the entire premise of the show is basically a satire people just take it too seriously without watching it and enjoying for the actual story


No, some of us like good writing. I don't care about this being black focused. If this was a Gay AF, or an Arab AF, I would have the same critique. Just because something satire, doesn't mean it shouldn't be sharp or clever. This show isn't. There are too many forced rants and meta commentary about identity crammed into a short period of time and it comes across as forced and unnatural to be good satire. At least for me. If this was a Jewish AF show, and the main character went on a rant about being Jewish in America and all of the issues he has with non-Jews within the first 15 minutes while his Jewish daughters gave a short history of being Jewish in America to explain to me the way they act, I would roll my eyes. Maybe it's just not everyone's humor. We don't all have to like the same things. But as a writer.....I didn't see the naunce, I didn't see the complexity, or subtletly I like in the kind of identity based comedies I enjoy. To me, it's too hamfisted, heavy handed, and on the nose. I feel like "Fresh Off the Boat" did this sort of humor much, much better. I also don't feel like people should have to force themselves to watch an entire season of a show before they know it's not for them. A lot of people watched the pilot, didn't like it and expressed why. I don't get why folks are getting all butt-hurt over negative opinions about a show they didn't produce, write, or direct.
 

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It's just clout chasing. I think Kenya kinda baited them into that shyt to.
The show is funny, I mean legit Laugh Out Loud funny. And that's rare for a sitcom type set up for me. I didn't watch Blackish but the quality of this makes me want to check it out.

Black'ish > BlackAF
 

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No, some of us like good writing. I don't care about this being black focused. If this was a Gay AF, or an Arab AF, I would have the same critique. Just because something satire, doesn't mean it shouldn't be sharp or clever. This show isn't. There are too many forced rants and meta commentary about identity crammed into a short period of time and it comes across as forced and unnatural to be good satire. At least for me. If this was a Jewish AF show, and the main character went on a rant about being Jewish in America and all of the issues he has with non-Jews within the first 15 minutes while his Jewish daughters gave a short history of being Jewish in America to explain to me the way they act, I would roll my eyes. Maybe it's just not everyone's humor. We don't all have to like the same things. But as a writer.....I didn't see the naunce, I didn't see the complexity, or subtletly I like in the kind of identity based comedies I enjoy. To me, it's too hamfisted, heavy handed, and on the nose. I feel like "Fresh Off the Boat" did this sort of humor much, much better. I also don't feel like people should have to force themselves to watch an entire season of a show before they know it's not for them. A lot of people watched the pilot, didn't like it and expressed why. I don't get why folks are getting all butt-hurt over negative opinions about a show they didn't produce, write, or direct.
The show is heavy handed, I'll give you that. I don't mind it because thats what the show is aiming for, that's how it conveys it's message. It always starts with a rant then calms down by the end of the episode and reveals it's real point. The show has so many forced rants because Kenya himself is a miserable dad and he's pretty much always fronting, he's always trying to come off as something but his family tells him different. The show is not perfect, the first episodes are mediocre and it didn't really get good in my eyes until episode 5. I was ready to turn it off before that but after episode 5 it pretty much finds it's footing.
 

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No, some of us like good writing. I don't care about this being black focused. If this was a Gay AF, or an Arab AF, I would have the same critique. Just because something satire, doesn't mean it shouldn't be sharp or clever. This show isn't. There are too many forced rants and meta commentary about identity crammed into a short period of time and it comes across as forced and unnatural to be good satire. At least for me. If this was a Jewish AF show, and the main character went on a rant about being Jewish in America and all of the issues he has with non-Jews within the first 15 minutes while his Jewish daughters gave a short history of being Jewish in America to explain to me the way they act, I would roll my eyes. Maybe it's just not everyone's humor. We don't all have to like the same things. But as a writer.....I didn't see the naunce, I didn't see the complexity, or subtletly I like in the kind of identity based comedies I enjoy. To me, it's too hamfisted, heavy handed, and on the nose. I feel like "Fresh Off the Boat" did this sort of humor much, much better. I also don't feel like people should have to force themselves to watch an entire season of a show before they know it's not for them. A lot of people watched the pilot, didn't like it and expressed why. I don't get why folks are getting all butt-hurt over negative opinions about a show they didn't produce, write, or direct.

Other races have same type of shows. But you’d need to be of that race to get it without “rolling your eyes”

Are you black?

Blackness just gets more critique and criticism and it’s a more complex issue which is pretty much the point of the show

Yea it can seem kinda forced but that’s how all these type of Black oriented shows/movies typically are.

Do you hate spike lee movies?

Do you prefer Tyler Perry ones?

I don’t even know why a show called BlackAF is even being taken so seriously.

There’s much more going on in the show than the Black themed stuff. All that was just to get people reeled in an watching and it obviously worked
 
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