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.
17 October 1981, Oakland, California, USA
25 January 1971, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
9 June 1987, Houston, Texas, USA
1 July 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
27 May 1957, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
28 October 1966, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
9 October 1979, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
13 December 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 October 1967, Bronx, New York, USA
26 February 1992, Dallas, Texas, USA
21 November 1971, Houston, Texas, USA
20 November 1971, Rome, Lazio, Italy
September 24, 2014
It's scattered, and in the first episode it doesn't push envelopes or test edges.
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.
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
[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 18, 2014
It's more engaged with meaningful issues than the other 'modern' sitcom that airs right before it.
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.
