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This is something the Johnsons might have done — well, on ABC, it would have been Disney World — but it’s starker and more uncomfortable, and accented with the irony that Kenya made a show about a family similar to his own that fights but works through its problems. Why Did Cameran Eubanks Leave ‘Southern Charm’? But after a dinner with one of Jo’s law school frenemies and her husband reveals that they both respond to even the slightest “white gaze” when it comes to their family. But there are an awful lot of echoes and repetitions: themes that might have been explored on “black-ish,” story lines and character dynamics that already were explored on “blackish.” “#blackAF” finds its voice immediately. Describing the joys of flying first class, Kenya says, “I kind of feel like the people in the back of the plane are animals now.” But it can also be nuanced, as when it explores Joya’s ambivalence about not working. If he buys a sports car, as he does in the debut episode, he’s a show-off. We see fellow filmmakers like Ava DuVernay, Issa Rae, Lena Waithe, Will Packer, Tyler Perry and more in other episodes. (It’s obviously not the actual Barris, but given that this is the first time we’re meeting him and he uses his real name on camera, we don’t have a lot more to go on; the utter absence of redemptive moments also work toward a sense of this show as reflective of its creator’s reality in a way that, say, “Louie” was not.) And “#blackAF” is funny and audacious in many of the same ways — “Curb Your Enthusiasm” to its predecessor’s “Seinfeld.”. 558, This story has been shared 523 times. 826, This story has been shared 819 times. (He stands firm in his decision, and we never revisit this incident, or the issue of what it means to set the tone for a workplace, again.) The viewer who makes it to the end has seen hours’ worth of a person perpetually berating everyone around him for failing to meet his standard even as we see him do nothing to prove he lives up to it as a father, a husband, or as an artist. This remark badly misunderstands, for one thing, why wars happen, and also what the psychic toll of endless fighting actually is — incidentally enough, for the audience too.