Cleveland Show: Season 2 Reviews

Entertainment Weekly once cautiously lauded The Cleveland Show for being the only new show to be anchored by a lead character of color. A recent NPR article decried the false sense of diversity that most networks and there shows have – characters of color who serve, it would seem, merely to give the appearance of diversity as African American actors often are relegated to providing exposition or acting as sounding boards for white actors as they are given space to explore more meaningful storylines. That’s criticism I can’t deny. The Cleveland Show is in fact a rare network show about a black family – we explore their lives (albeit that exploration as only as deep as this kind of mostly adolescent humor will allow) – and we get to know them and how they see the world around them. It is refreshing. But The Cleveland Show is not without problems and we should still lament at how lonely it is in the television landscape are representing an American where an estimated one-third of all people are minorities.  

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