It took a couple of tries to actually get into this show.
I don't understand this show. I mean I really have no idea what these children are saying most of the time. Is there a pop-up videos version?
I stopped the first episode right after the predictable scene with Sam and her yoga instructor... It's just so concentrated.. so thick.. so.. unfiltered but insufferably well presented. So Netflix.
I mean the laughs are genuine and all but.. only because the situations are so typical.
Meanwhile.. after forcing the next few episodes, I still wasn't into it because it is too focused on the black agenda.
It's almost like they spoke to real black people when producing it. Shocked. The hair thing.. spot on. I had to start cutting my own hair (in practice I mean not that I want to cut my hair EVER.. actually starting to wonder if I'm finally starting to lose some..) because having someone else do it is like having someone play with my hair. No thank you. No fucking touchy. I can't even recall if she played with my hair or just understood without having to be told. As a kid it was annoying to have people randomly shove their fingers in my, what they'd call, nappy hair. I let my hair do what it wants and we get along fine if you do not touch it.
But for most of the rest of it, the Black America stuff. I'm just like.. eating my popcorn because I have no concept of what they are talking about. Neither side really.
Until the Reggie scene. The whole episode was building up to it so it wasn't entirely shocking but in the back of my mind I'm thinking Micah Xavier. What could have gone down if he hadn't kept his cool. What would have happened if he was armed. As a revolutionary I mean he could have gone down fighting. By the by what kind of cops pull out a gun in a crowded room as opposed to drawing him out first, then disposing of him on the lawn.
Why he couldn't have just been talked down sooner. The cop rationalizing it as Reggie's fault for not complying with the request for his student ID. Why the police reaction is always always always always aggressive.
I have issue with the show's agenda and how these typical situations wouldn't occur or play out in the way they are portrayed. Sure, it's fiction and all that. It's entertainment and all that.. It rubs me wrong. It should have been presented from Reggie's perspective so you're in his skin. So you're starting at a law man who wouldn't think twice about dropping you like a dog in the middle of a crowded party because ain't shit going to happen to him even though you did nothing wrong. AND he was actually entirely in the right the entire time. The rest of the episode, and show, might rub me wrong, but unfortunately that is Black America.