The cast is excellent and the acting first rate. The music is mostly good and the story line is often compelling. The issue is the underlying message that is sent over and over in almost every scene. Again and again the viewer is boldly told what to, think, how to react, how to speak etc., based solely on race. The writers seem to attempt to highlight many social problems in America. This is admirable. However, nearly every behavior that surrounds each issue is almost always based on race in a narrow and stereotypical manner. This is insulting to the intelligent and conscious viewer. There seems at all times to be an agenda to the writing which forwards this narrow view of how each race should look/feel/act. It is not a show I would recommend to teenagers or young adults or to anyone at risk of adapting the underlying ideals or emulating the purported behaviors of this show; Ideals and behaviors that narrow, that constrict, that diminish one's character and ones possibilities, ones world. Race does not define a persons thoughts, behaviors or life. There is no box in which each race fits. Having the characters repeatedly spout such limitations does not make it so.
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