Black-ish - Season 1

Grading “Elephant In The Room” turned out to be remarkably challenging. It didn’t feel like a grade-A episode of Blac…

At a magazine job I once had, everyone worked late on Fridays, so at some point in the publication’s history, the…

Based on a synopsis of “Please Don’t Ask, Please Don’t Tell,” I went into the episode braced for the worst,…

The novelty of Black-ish comes from its ability to tell stories about the subtle (and occasionally dramatic)…

“Switch Hitting” falls squarely in Black-ish’s wheelhouse. It’s exactly the kind of story the show was created to…

Black-ish loses some of its luster when it drills down into Andre and Rainbow’s marital woes, except in cases in…

Not to state the obvious but I’m going to totally state the obvious: Sitcoms, particularly ones that focus on…

Andre Johnson can be a divisive character, an obnoxious and overzealous patriarch who routinely rubs viewers the…

Black-ish already has such a good cast within the Johnson family, a rare occurrence where every family member is…

Lately there has been so much talk about diversity and representation on television, from the success of shows like E…

Of the four Johnson children on Black-ish, the oldest daughter Zoey is certainly the least-developed. On the…

One of the biggest criticisms about Black-ish, on a character level, is that Dre’s overzealous nature makes him…

It’s Martin Luther King Day on Black-ish and the obsessive, overzealous, obnoxious but ultimately well-meaning…

First things first: Laurence Fishburne is back! Rejoice! I know that he’s busy pulling double duty on Hannibal and…

“Black people can’t be racist!”

In the spirit of December and all the upcoming year-end lists, I should say that, with only nine episodes, Black-ish …

This week on Black-ish, Andre has to figure out how to love both his mother and his wife when the two women in his…

Here’s a tricky parenting situation: How do you balance the desire to give your child everything with the fear that…

It’s one of the best times of the year: Halloween on television! Yeah, yeah, there are the silly family high jinks…

Before we get into a discussion of the real meat of the episode, can we pause to praise the child actors on Black-ish…