Blackish always aimed for the third rail, but it played it safe more often than not. CraigSJ writes
Illustration: Mark Harris Everything that’s great, and everything that’s stiff, about Black-ish is present at the start. In the pilot, California marketing executive Dre Johnson gets promoted to senior vice-president of the Los Angeles ad firm Stevens and Lido. It ought to be one of the greatest days of his life, but he can’t shake the feeling that he’s paying an unforeseen price for living the dream. Dre was raised in Compton, but his children are Sherman Oaks blue bloods.
But it also treated hearing both sides of the issue as a virtue, an end in itself, even as it implicitly endorsed its patriarch’s point of view. Now that it’s over, it’s worth reconsidering how it handled the complexities of Black thought in rapidly changing times.
S2, Ep. 16: “Hope” Three generations of Johnsons, including Dre’s parents, Pops and Ruby , gather for a tense family town hall on police brutality. Such provocative scenes put Black entertainment icons in direct conversation onscreen with the next generation of Black Hollywood: Marcus Scribner, Yara Shahidi, Marsai Martin, and Miles Brown.
In the series opener, Dre says he’s an inspiration to his Black co-workers: “There were so few of us at Stevens and Lido that being Black made it feel like you were part of a little family. So when one of us made it, it was kind of like we all did. And right now, I was that one.” How the family he daps up on the way to the office might feel about the firm having space for only the one isn’t mentioned.
S8, Ep. 1: “That’s What Friends Are For” Bow meets a powerful new friend and realizes it’s lonely at the top. S8, Ep. 1: “That’s What Friends Are For” Bow meets a powerful new friend and realizes it’s lonely at the top.
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