At the end of last season, the married couple at the center of ABC's Black-ish saw their relationship abruptly disintegrate.
It was a dramatic detour that raised some audience concern not because it was badly handled — Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross have maybe never been better — but because it shed a dark, almost condemning light on two characters and a union that, previously, we hadn't been used to viewing with such concern or disdain.
It was raw and probably honest TV, but it wasn't exactly Black-ish. In his new Netflix comedy #blackAF, Black-ish creator Kenya Barris has crafted a show better equipped to handle that cynicism and edgy discomfort.
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