Some shows don't get my interest right way. Shows about white suburban families are low on the list, and I usually end up binging them out of boredom in the summer. I did watch Parenthood when it was on but I didn't pick up till the last season. I used to watch COACH back in the day, so Craig T Nelson was kind of a draw, and Loreli Gilmore, and Joy Bryant being a dot in the cast. I am always curious about the one black character in a sea of white people. Michael B Jordan KILLMONGER has a character which when he was introduced I knew why he was there. For the pasty moon faced privileged white girl to fixate upon. I called it. But the thing is she's 16 he's 19. Dropped out of high school. Mom died and dad couldn't cope after, so they ended up homeless. Dad started drinking, so did Mike. He got in recovery, he got emancipated at 16 and has been on his own ever since. But he's been clean for 6 months. He's in AA and isn't supposed to abstain from relationships for a year. He tells moonface girl this. Does she listen? Hell no. She won't back down. She mentions him to the family. Invite him for dinner. He comes over like Sidney Portier with flowers for mom and the 9. He is polite, open honest and charming. He lays everything about his life out for the parents. They like the guy alot. BUT.....it's inappropriate for their 16 year old be dating him. He's grown and been through some shit. He's a grown ass man, and she's a baby in high school. Of course they tell their daughter this when he leaves. She loses her mind. Doesn't tell Mike what her parents said, and acts like business as usual. She sneaks around to see him, lies to her parents; uses her cousin as a shield. But one day he comes to pick her up and she runs out of the house and is busted. Mike is like WHAT IS HAPPENING! He's pissed he was put in this position. The next day he goes to the dads work and talks to him man to man explaining he didn't know. Dad says it's not cool with us, you get it? You are grown, we want her to stay a kid while she's a kid. Mike gets it. He shuts it down. Moonface shows up at Mikes work (at the food bank where they met so she can fullfill her community service credit for college applications) He had her pegged from the start. He told her he didn't like being lied to, or put in the position of looking like a bad guy. To leave him be until her parents change their position. She up and moves to her grandparents house. They already have 3 people living with them. Their youngest daughter and her two kids. She camps out there because she can't get her way. In the meantime Mike is out of the picture. So she's doing it for nothing really. After about a week grandma evicts her and she goes home. Mom and dad set conditions on her seeing Mike. They caved.
UGH.
On the other black side. Joy got pregnant by blond dude and waited 5 years to tell him. He comes running and wants to be a dad. She told her whole family he walked out on her. Her father had walked out on her mother. So when blond dude shows up for the kids birthday party, he gets nothing but shade from the black people. They go in on him. Joy steps up and tells the truth, that she lied. So they back off a bit. Blond dude is a musician who lives on a boat and is footloose and fancy free. But when he becomes a father, he starts dating his mother and they fall in love. They decide to move in and get engaged. They get a new apartment, and he decides to sell the boat he's lived on for years. But once they move in Joy makes all the decisions. She needs him to be a dad who backs her up with the kid. Delivers consequences. He didn't get it at first. Then the kid has a tantrum and tells him no. He gets it. DING! But Joy continually makes all the decisions on everything. They go to her church for pre marital counselling and she won't let him speak. He's getting fed up. It was weird to me because she goes to church. So supposedly she's a Christian. But I guess she's a sometimes Christian who actually hasn't read the bible or been in any type of bible study. She doesn't know what God says about the husband and wife. The HUSBAND is the head of the household. The wife must follow her husband. I am surprised that the pastor didn't point that out in their meeting. He didn't refer them to couples bible study either.
Blond dude is home with Joy and she's telling him he's loading the dishwasher wrong. He's putting the groceries away wrong. He snaps. He tells her she's controlling. He lets it all out. Good for him. But she hears what she wants to hear.
The same old tired stereotype. First she's a single mother. Then when she gets a man, she is bossy. I am so tired of this picture. Her mother is also bossy. Bitter because her man left her with the kids. Apple, tree.
I felt tired.
I decided to take control of my destiny this coming week.
I hope I don't go to jail.
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