This adaptation of Karin Slaughter’s best-selling detective novels is a breezy journey through the life of a very watchable investigator. He’s quirky, enigmatic and totally relatable
Just when you thought a heavily racial show (ABC’s mixed-ish) that loves to turn racism against white people into humor couldn’t sink any lower, you end up with Tuesday’s episode, “Walk This Way,” in which main character Paul (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) pathetically uses his “white privilege” in a desperate attempt
Season 7 finale airs on Tuesday
Tony Maglio | May 14, 2021 @ 9:11 AM
ABC
ABC has renewed comedy series “Black-ish” for an eighth and final season. Creator Kenya Barris first shared the news on social media on Friday.
“To ALL the people in the world I love, honor, respect and care for it is both exciting and bittersweet to share that black-ish been RENEWED by ABC for it’s EIGHTH… and FINAL SEASON,” Barris wrote. “In this day and age it is rare to get to decide when your show should come to an end, and we are grateful along with ABC to be able to make this final season exactly what we’d hoped for – and to do it with the entire and AMAZINGLY STELLAR cast coming back to close this chapter out with us the right way!”
Just when you thought a heavily racial show (ABC’s
mixed-ish) that loves to turn racism against white people into humor couldn’t sink any lower, you end up with Tuesday’s episode, “Walk This Way,” in which main character Paul (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) pathetically uses his “white privilege” in a desperate attempt to make his racist black sister-in-law Denise (Christina Anthony) like him. (If you remember, Denise is the one who loves “disappointing white people.”)
At the start of the episode, we see a montage of all the ways Paul has tried to please Denise over the years and how much Denise disdains him. “
Vivica:
Alicia: Uh, tell me about it.
Paul:
Ooh, no. No, they do not.
Vivica: You know, Alicia, I had one of those days, too. One of my students parents mistook me for the lunch lady. What? I am a teacher. A teacher.
Paul: Come on, girl. They don t pay you enough to deal with that kind of crap.
George: You should ve told her, You look more like a lunch lady than me, with your bifocals and your chin hair.
Paul: My man. My man. Preach! Preach. Oh, Lord. Lord. Oh.
White people are something special. Listen, I just wanted to apologize to all of you on behalf of all of us.