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Netflix has released the official trailer for part 5 of 'The Upshaws.'

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"We’re giving people a chance to see that there are Black families out there that know how to function through all the dysfunction and still enjoy

Multicamera comedy is typically regarded as the less sophisticated, even less serious cousin of cinematic single-camera sitcoms, though there are plenty of single-camera shows that are not much good at all, while multicamera can lay claim to "I Love Lucy," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Cheers," "Seinfeld" and others too numerous to name. For reasons unrelated to quality, however, relatively few of these have focused on Black characters, few enough that many feel historically significant: "Sanfo...

Print Multicamera comedy is typically regarded as the less sophisticated, even less serious cousin of cinematic single-camera sitcoms, though there are plenty of single-camera shows that are not much good at all, while multicamera can lay claim to “I Love Lucy,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Cheers,” “Seinfeld” and others too numerous to name. For reasons unrelated to quality, however, relatively few of these have focused on Black characters, few enough that many feel historical...

Mike Epps, Kim Fields and Wanda Sykes star in “The Upshaws.” (Lara Solanki/Netflix) A Black family gets to be normal and middle class in Mike Epps, Wanda Sykes sitcom ‘The Upshaws’ Kate Feldman, New York Daily News, (TNS) The creative team of “The Upshaws” took great care to avoid focusing on Black trauma that’s so deftly explored in “When They See Us” and “I May Destroy You.” Instead co-creators Regina Hicks and Wanda Sykes and executive producer Mike Epps wanted to make ...

The creative team of “The Upshaws” took great care to avoid focusing on Black trauma that’s so deftly explored in “When They See Us” and “I May Destroy You.” Instead co-creators Regina Hicks and Wanda Sykes and executive producer Mike Epps wanted to make a normal show about a normal middle-class Black family. “It’s about time we were able to tell the truth,” Epps, who also stars as Bennie Upshaw, told the Daily News of the Netflix sitcom, premie...