Once you get past its pejorative and provocative title, ABC’s new family comedy “Black-ish” is extremely intelligent and funny.
Anthony Anderson stars as an affluent advertising executive named Andre Johnson. He’s married to a beautiful doctor named Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross) and they have four gorgeous kids. They live in a posh neighborhood, in a big and beautiful house and they have awesome clothes, shoes and cars. Laurence Fishburne (who is only nine years older than Anderson in real life, by the way) costars as Andre’s outspoken and cantankerous dad.
In other words, “Black-ish,” which debuts Wednesday night after “Modern Family,” has all of its sitcom basics covered.