I just finished the first ep.  I...just.... I dunno. 

The trailer actually made this look like it would be funny. But I found the  first episode to be exhausting and aggressively unfunny. 

The first 16 (of a 33 minute ep) minutes was a super conscious examination of 'being black as seen by Kenya Barris' which consisted of talking about being black and displaying mind numbing conspicuous consumption (complete with name dropping designer labels) of the newly rich. 

Also Rashida Jones' character was just so abrasive that she made me sympathetic toward that liberal too politically correct white couple that I normally would be rolling my eyes at.  That whole dinner scene was just ridiculous.

Is this supposed to be ridiculous?  Maybe I am not going into it with the right mindset.

All the kids seemed like they were plucked right off of Instagram influencers casting. The kids just don't seem natural at all.  This is exacerbated by the writing that also doesn't feel like these are natural conversations.

This episode makes me wonder that if this is his artistic freedom response to being held in check by ABC over Blackish then maybe I don't give ABC enough credit.

I'll check out a few more episodes, but if they all feel this soulless, I'll tap out.

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