EPISODE
SEASON
Black-ish - Season 1
The sitcom centers around Andre Johnson, a successful family man who beliefs its time he instills some cultural practices to his family before they loose it all.
29 December 1980
23 May 1975, San Francisco, California, USA
30 July 1964, South Bend, Indiana, USA
22 February 1976, Dayton, Ohio, USA
September 18, 2014
It's more engaged with meaningful issues than the other 'modern' sitcom that airs right before it.
September 24, 2014
It's scattered, and in the first episode it doesn't push envelopes or test edges.
September 24, 2014
[It] works on several levels -- multigenerational sitcom, workplace comedy, cultural and class satire. Will it have Cosby Show crossover appeal? That's one of those questions we shouldn't have to ask in post-racial America, but it tackles it with finesse.
September 24, 2014
Black-ish is about the upper-middle-class black experience, but it refuses to oversimplify the place that oversimplifications have in our hearts.
September 19, 2014
It shouldn't feel so novel for a comedy to feature a black family who talk about being black in ways that are honest and interesting, but it does.
September 24, 2014
Black-ish also gives the impression that it could do better. The writers are going to have to start by trying to keep it real-ish.
September 17, 2014
It's uncertain who Black-ish envisions as its target audience: Some viewers might be put off by Andre's sense of victimization while others might tune in and be disappointed that Andre is the latest in a long line of Dumb Daddy buffoons.