So much of mixed-ish thus far has had a laser focus on being mixed (which, of course, is the entire premise) that it felt noticeably absent throughout “When Doves Cry.” Granted, it hasn’t been able to find the cleanest way to navigate these thorny biracial issues but it still hasn’t found a way to be a family comedy, either. It should be an interesting take on compartmentalizing and the ability to care about one thing without it overtaking your life (which is certainly a relevant topic in 2020) but it’s too scattered. It tries to balance the grief with Bow’s (Arica Himmel) crush on a classmate she wants to feel sad about the explosion because that’s the normal reaction but she’s also walking on sunshine because he made her a mixtape. It’s not a particularly bad episode, but it’s one that feels … off and out of place. The main story in “When Doves Cry” revolves around the Challenger disaster and how each member of the Johnson family has a different way of dealing with grief. It doesn’t give Diane a right answer but instead gives her her answer - and it’s quick to point out that regardless of what hair choice you decide on, “you’re still a sister.”īecause this was so reminiscent of OG black-ish, it’s interesting that the midseason mixed-ish premiere episode it was paired with was one that felt like a departure from the rest of the first season. It works because it’s both specific and universal, because it doesn’t care if white audiences don’t understand certain aspects but it’s instantly relatable to its Black audience.
“Hair Day” feels more in line with the first two or three seasons of black-ish rather than the last few which have suffered from mixing up its main cast (such as Yara Shahidi’s Zoey moving on to the spinoff grown-ish) and out of place storylines (such as Season 4’s marital-issues plot that felt hastily thrown in). Mixed-ish's Christina Anthony Talks Emotional Challenger Explosion Episode Complete with Diane doing her best Eddie-Murphy-as-James-Brown impression and a full-on choreographed music number led by Scott, “Hair Day” was a success.
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Bow wants to have a one-on-one conversation with Diane about her hair journey but Diane prefers to do it in the salon - a wonderful setting that accurately depicts Black hair salons, and that’s full of numerous Black women with braids, buzzed heads, perms, afros, wigs, and more. “You have to understand how emotional this is for us, this may be the last time we sit together as a cast,” Ross said.What follows is a fun, relatable, and even musical episode (singer Jill Scott played hairstylist Yaya) that’s all about the complexity and beauty of Black hair. Just before the final bow, Ross interrupted the curator by reminding her of why they had difficulty letting go. The cast walked the carpet with beautiful smiles and ended the event with a heartfelt panel reflecting on the past eight years of the show. The night began with a lit up black carpet, reflecting the show’s title.
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And personally, whenever I look at a character I look at does this work for the scene? And does this work for my character? And then what does it look like in the context of television? So how are we seeing this Black woman on TV at this moment? And those are the unconscious things that change how we look at who we are,” Ross said. For example, I would be like, why am I doing laundry? Can I have a computer? Those things, to me, make a big difference. There were things that I would notice that they wouldn’t notice.
Tracee Ellis Ross, who plays Rainbow, is not new to an all-Black cast, but she joined this cast due to the mission of Barris. It was created during the Obama administration, made America laugh during the pandemic and gave Black Americans dialogue post-pandemic and during times of racial tension.īarris wanted to make sure that “Black-ish” addressed and reinterpreted the stereotypes that people portrayed of Black people in the media. The sitcom was historical and influential because of the show’s period. Kenya Barris, the creator of “Black-ish,” took just enough of a risk to make a difference.
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