I loved the first few years of Black-ish, I thought Anthony Anderson personified the perfect modern-day dad, try as you might, your kids still own you and kick your ass, at the end of the day. I loved the chemistry and I felt relatable, how his feelings would get hurt and he'd pout like a child when he didn't get his way, or his family didn't support him on some crazy idea. Then they got political, and sorry but as Trump says "everything that goes woke, turns to shit."
This is supposed to be the last season, and this is about the last show I am watching on TV with new content, but they are making it hard to stay with it. I can accept the one episode where they are going to show us about Martin Luther King, or some other important black moment, but the show can't do this every other week. This season, Dre, the dad, is starting work in the big time, he has been promoted from the "urban" department to the main one that does commercials for the Super Bowl, that kind of stuff. Right off the bat, he turned me off with his assuming that white people just get there without working hard. I think the company does well because it has the best people at the top spots. His character has done the work and now he has arrived. That is how life works. We started on food stamps and in a shitty apartment, now we're here. I think that is the way for most people. He wants to whine about nepotism amongst the white people, yet he got his son into his job and already hovering around the talent as an assistant, sorry bro, but that is nepotism as well.
His wife has also been promoted to the board or something important at her hospital, yet she spends more time at home than even I do. I doubt she is even working forty hours as much as she seems to be home. I thought doctors got paid good money because they ignored their families and were always at work saving people.
The lessons the kids have been learning lately are just plain horrible. In the last episode, Diane, the younger daughter, is being wooed by a guy at school and there was a scene where the family is trashing the purse the boy gave her as a gift. The bag was a Louis Vuitton backpack that new would sell for close to $2000. Why in the fuck would a ditzy teenager need or deserve a bag like that? Why would a teenage boy be gifting such a gift? Why would her family shame him for buying a knockoff bag and call him trash? I was thoroughly confused that the lesson from this scene wasn't "this boy is in high school, he doesn't owe you anything this expensive." I guess these assholes are rich, with the executive dad and the doctor mom, so money isn't a problem for them, but fuck them. That was such a shitty scene.
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