black-ish (2014-2018)

The provocative ABC comedy series Black-ish stars Anthony Anderson as Andre ‘Dre’ Johnson, an advertising executive at a major ad agency that is run by a predominately white staff. When he’s not busting his butt at the office, he’s enjoying time with his wife, Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross), a successful physician, and his four children: Zoey (Yara Shahidi), Andre Jr. (Marcus Scribner), Jack (Miles Brown), and Diane (Marsai Martin), at their beautiful, upper-middle class suburban house. Along with his snarky, old-school father, Pops (Laurence Fishburne), by his side when he needs him, Andre has the perfect life, one would think. But the well-intentioned father ruminates over the fact that he thinks his children’s cultural identity is being hi-jacked by being so ingrained in white world that one of his son’s wants to have a Bar Mitzvah, and he has more interest in playing field hockey than basketball. Can the Johnson family stay black in a world where they're rich, suburban, and surrounded by white people? A bravely hilarious family sitcom that touched on issues like police brutality against people of color, Postpartum Depression, Juneteenth celebrations, and the unspoken nod black men give each other when they find themselves in hugely white spaces, what was kind of wack-ish was that, since this was a family show on ABC, we never got anything more than shirtless stuff. Deon Cole played Charlie, a traditionally masculine black dude who works with Dre at the ad agency. At one point we see him in a towel eating a big bowl of cereal. With just one look at Deon Mr. Man knew he was never going backish! If you like your teddy bears a bit fluffier, Anthony Anderson manages to show off his hunky upper body and blurred out butt on season one, episode three. That's one Dre we bet you haven't forgot about! If you like to have sex with a dude who's abs add up to six, Allen Maldonado is a shredded piece of man meat who strips down at the ad meeting, while Trevor Jackson strolls around in a bathing suit. Sign us up for some of that brother-ly love! Black-ish will make you whack-ish!