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 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, premiering Wednesday.