Do y'all agree with this statement about current Black TV shows?

[Verbal Kint]

I haven’t watched Atlanta are there black families and positive black male and female characterization? What is it about?

Atlanta ain't a sitcom or an hour drama. Its kind of in it's own category so while it's not overtly on some 'positive role model' stuff it also ain't pandering to the Root crowd

 

[Crimson_Dynamo]

Could never watch blackish or dear white people. Way too corny

 

[klientel]

What even defines a "black show" these days?

Even shows like Atlanta are made by majority white people. I watched a youtube video where the producers all got together and discussed the show, Donald Glover was the only black dude in the room.

 

[Lhark]

Sistas
Insecure
Twenties
Boomerang

Black Jesus
Black Lightning
Atlanta
Southside
Queen Sugar

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Black-ish, although great, explains every single joke, and has full black history lessons.

Anything on non-black owned networks has to be pitched to people who are not black in order to make it on the air. It’s the same thing with films. The people financing, and deciding what goes into the media are white.

 

[Cadillac]

You mean overcompensating like a lot of these fake faux blacks on here portray themselves as? I guess they would hate shows that show how I see most of these caricatures of black people on here.

basically yeah, shyt even the chick in the OP is overcompensation with what she tweeted. All what she typed is doesnt do anything. Albeit it does bring some relatability a black audience can relate to.

But the issue is mainly that these shows just come off as try hard and forceful as hell in their approach as a black tv show.These black shows from Insecure and others are just shea butter twitter on tv. And thats the best description of them

 

[PJMilano]

 

[ColdSlither]

Without any blowback

If a young troubled white kid from rural Alabama got shipped to his rich extended family in Florida you really think that shyt would have flew in the moment?

There is one huge, rather gigantic difference. Especially at that time. NBC vs Fox which was pretty much still on the come up as a TV network. If Living Single was on NBC, CBS or ABC, I don't think that there would be a Friends.

 

[BlackMajik]

What even defines a "black show" these days?

Even shows like Atlanta are made by majority white people. I watched a youtube video where the producers all got together and discussed the show, Donald Glover was the only black dude in the room.

U just made this shyt up

fukk outta here

 

[fckyoupayme]

African American Vernacular English aka the new Social Science Babble name for Ebonics aka "talking black"

AAVE is a real dialect

 

[Barnett114]

Martin with light skinned wife
Disrespectful to a dark skinned woman
Dressing in drag
Cole being super retarded
Hustle man
Jerome
lil Daryl
Bro man
Tommy lack of job
Martin loud behavior

Don’t get me started with Jaime or Wayan brothers lol

 

[El Bombi]

Citrus and meat?

 

[El Bombi]

Greenleaf, to me, is the best current black show.

Co-sign until the latest season.

The latest season of Greenleaf was pure trash.

A lot of forced and out of place storylines.

And isn't the head writer for Greenleaf a CAC?

 

[philmonroe]

basically yeah, shyt even the chick in the OP is overcompensation with what she tweeted. All what she typed is doesnt do anything. Albeit it does bring some relatability a black audience can relate to.

But the issue is mainly that these shows just come off as try hard and forceful as hell in their approach as a black tv show.These black shows from Insecure and others are just shea butter twitter on tv. And thats the best description of them

I definitely agree but they aren’t for me but that Bomani Jones/grapevine YouTube channel black imo. That’s cool for them but these shows do nothing for me but I understand that I’m not the audience they trying to appeal to either.

 

[Wildin]

I swear to god people be making up shyt that doesn't exist, isn't relevant and then because nobody has ever heard of it saying "it's black" .

"Yea you remember them hot days you had to have the t-shirt and the ice cubes "
" yeahhhh and you know grandma always gave you too little or too much!"
"you had to have the white joint or the blue one though.."
" the light blue then it get dark!"
" the fukk y'all talking about?"
" you ain't never had a t-shirt an ice cubes ?"
" your folks never gave you a t shirt an ice cubes on a hot day? Man all the black people do that! And you wrap them up...man it's like . That's how you knew it was summer!"
" or you just didn't have AC cause a t shirt and ice cubes was like "