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The good--Shahidi, her chemistry with Latina Republican roommate Ana (Francia Raisa, of the Selena Gomez-kidney donation), the snappy dialogue--far outweighs the bad, most of which just feels like an awkward adjustment period, baby fat to be easily outgrown.
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Like “A Different World,” the “Cosby Show” spin-off, “grown-ish” moves to its own beat. While it, too, tries to be socially conscious, it doesn’t force its message.
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More than a worthy inheritor to its network progenitor, Grown-ish takes full advantage of Shahidi’s presence and energy to realistically explore what the undergrad experience is like in the modern age, without ginning up a cautionary tone or diluting the honesty of its plot points.
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Yara Shahidi takes full advantage of the expansion of her screen time, and the kind of piquant, culturally relevant storytelling that “Black-ish” has honed is on display here too. All in all, Grown-ish is a smart, breezy expansion of the “Black-ish” family.
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Like “Black-ish” before it, Grown-ish has more on its mind than a good time, and through its first three episodes, the half-hour Freeform comedy explores universal fears, joys, and problems with enough style and insight to make you overlook any comparably minor squabbles.
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Grown-ish is a clever show that knows how clever it is.
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The new series is a compelling companion to Black-ish--funny, charming and thought-provoking--only here the social discussions, characters and humor are packaged for a younger audience.
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The new characters can still use fleshing out. Meanwhile, Ms. Shahidi’s laid-back, dry performance, a great fit with the more antic “black-ish” ensemble, takes getting used to as the focus of a series. What grown-ish does have from the get-go is a sense of itself and a lot to say.
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grown-ish is less consistently funny than its parent series, but it’s likable and smart, and has surrounded Shahidi with an appealing cast of new faces, plus one familiar one.
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The show clearly possesses promise. Yet despite passing that first test, Grown-ish is going to need to do some more growing to avoid getting lost in the crowd.
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While the realistic depiction of college is not in question, "grown-ish" borders on depressing in its sobering depiction of modern college life.
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Grown-ish has a lot of obvious potential, but based on the first three episodes made available to critics, it’s still trying to determine how to effectively channel it.
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I think I can spot the fine show that Grown-ish may be evolving into, or at least latch onto the potential. But as its title is meant to imply about its college-age characters, it's a show that's not quite grown, still trying to make it on its own.
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[A] bold-ish black-ish offshoot. [25 Dec 2017 - 7 Jan 2018, p.15]
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Grown-ish is a cell-by-cell clone of The Breakfast Club and its celebration of sophomoric melodrama, where cynical wisecracks inevitably give way to mock profundities, shouting matches to hyperemotive tears, and clichés to stereotypes. (Or maybe that one is the other way around.) The wholesale piracy is so blatant that Grown-ish even tries to make a joke or two about it. But the admission that you're stealing somebody else's work doesn't make it any less larcenous.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 37
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Mixed: 4 out of 37
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Negative: 14 out of 37
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