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EPISODE
SEASON
Black-ish - Season 2 Episode 16: Hope
Andre 'Dre' Johnson Sr., an African-American advertising executive who tries to pass on some of his urban culture to his seemingly uninterested children. Like any parents, Andre 'Dre' and Rainbow Johnson want to give their children the best. But their offspring's childhood is turning out to be much different than theirs. As he defines what the American dream means to his family in a multi-cultural world, one idea keeps surfacing. It appears that in this melting pot called America, we are all a little black-ish.
23 December 1988, San Diego, California, USA
23 October 1958, Detroit, Michigan, USA
21 June 1978, New Jersey, USA
28 April 1953, Abington, Pennsylvania, USA
4 July 1959, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
21 August 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
September 07, 2018
Beyond the character moments, "Hope" manages to work in a stunning amount of American racial history (and current events) into a single episode without coming off like a sitcom Wikipedia page.
September 11, 2018
There is no explicit conclusion because there is no conclusion to this ongoing problem in real life. It ends with them going to join the protest together, in solidarity with each other and in solidarity with their black brothers and sisters.
September 11, 2018
It was a half hour of television that, yes, leaned a little heavily on rattled-off statistics and, sure, occasionally bordered on preachy. But isn't this something worth preaching about?
