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The drama series explores the story of a father who is beginning to take an unfaithful and honest approach to parenting and faces a bad path because of what is happening in his life. While filming a documentary for application at New York University, Drea takes the matter seriously and recommends her family as Kenya considers loosening his 'flexing' around white people in this regard.
13 March 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 January 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 September 1969, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
7 June 1961, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
September 27, 1988 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA
8 July 1960, Queens, New York, USA
6 April 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 August 1972, Long Beach, California, USA
17 March 1976, Gainesville, Florida, USA
18 November 1970, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
22 June 1984, Miami, Florida, USA
7 July 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
April 16, 2020
#blackAF takes a little while to settle into its voice and tone, but by the excellent fifth episode, it has its own smart groove, one driven unexpectedly by the toxicity - autobiographical or not - of the main characters.
April 16, 2020
It's both a tired concept and an awkwardly constructed one, something that cute hashtags and the occasional clever Hollywood/L.A. reference can't fix.
April 16, 2020
On Netflix, Barris's acid tone drops to an even lower pH level. The jabs are so cutting and downright mean, you can feel less like a viewer than a family therapist.
April 16, 2020
Ultimately, it's uncertain what audiences are meant to understand about Barris, if anything at all, or the world he's created within the series. Because even as a source of pure entertainment, it falls flat.
April 16, 2020
Though he's no actor, Barris' Larry-David-like self-awareness lends authenticity to his performance. Even if it takes another season to perfect, #blackAF feels substantial enough to justify the investment.
April 16, 2020
This warts, wealth and all depiction goes far deeper than just its barrage of sharp one-liners and rants.
April 15, 2020
Though #blackAF is frequently very smart, and at times explosively funny, the comparisons it constantly invites to Barris' previous work can be terribly distracting.
April 15, 2020
#blackAF is a fiasco only interesting in the degree to which it detonates and, retroactively, somewhat spoils Barris's work so far.
April 15, 2020
#BlackAF continues the diminished returns of Barris' -ish series, and makes apparent his need to develop new ideas.
April 16, 2020
I'm not regularly astonished by how good a show is right out of the gate. "#blackAF" is astonishingly good from the get-go.
