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Black-ish Season 1 Episode 22 Review: “Please Don’t Ask, Please Don’t Tell”

From the outset, “Please Don’t Ask, Please Don’t Tell” embraces Black-ish‘s lesser qualities. The episode opens with Andre makin

Randy Dankievitch May 7, 2015

Black-ish Season 1 Episode 21 Review: “The Peer-ent Trap”

For Black-ish‘s outlandish main characters to work, the show has to embrace their absurdity, and relax on the whole “actually trying to make a po

Randy Dankievitch April 30, 2015

Black-ish Season 1 Episode 20 Review: “Switch Hitting”

Caricature can be a powerful comedic device, in the right hands: however, Black-ish‘s utilization of slapstick humor and over-the-top characterizations

Randy Dankievitch April 23, 2015

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Black-ish Season 1 Episode 18 Review: “The Real World”

Although it’s an endlessly common trait with female characters, there are few entities on television able to make “neurotic” an endearing ch

Randy Dankievitch April 9, 2015

Black-ish Season 1 Episode 17 Review: “30 Something”

Black-ish‘s downward slide might finally be coming to a halt: after a few weeks off, “30 Something” is a complete turnaround of the debacle

Randy Dankievitch March 26, 2015

Black-ish Season 1 Episode 16 Review: “Parental Guidance”

There’s an increasingly cold and nasty tone to Black-ish in its 2015 episodes that has been off-putting, to say the least. Valentine’s Day was t

Randy Dankievitch March 5, 2015

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Black-ish Season 1 Episode 15 Review: “The Dozens”

For those unfamiliar with the phrase, “The Dozens” is not just an episode title or a phrase ‘Dre or black-ish made up: as he attempts to de

Randy Dankievitch February 26, 2015

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Black-ish Season 1 Episode 14 Review: “Andre from Marseille”

Often, the key to Black-ish is how the show channels the manic rhythms of its protagonist, Andre: when an episode falls too far into high-pitched slapstick,

Randy Dankievitch February 19, 2015