smarter than your average sketch.
I've seen every episode of this show and I pulled a muscle laughing so hard (true story). The sketches are so original. I'm a West Indian woman, my husband is a white American, and we both LOVE this show. I started watching it because I try to support women in comedy and I loved that the writing team is all black, but we stayed for the jokes.I do understand where some of the critics are coming from because it's not like Dave Chapelle or Key and Peele, which makes sense because this is written by women and not a bunch of guys and a token woman. I agree with the poster that pointed out it wouldn't make sense to just recreate an existing show and cast it with women because that wouldn't be authentic.
I've seen some comments about how if the show was funny they wouldn't have to have so many guest stars. I don't even understand that logic. Why wouldn't the funniest, most talented black actresses not want to do a bit with some of the best black female writers in the business? That kind of support gets eyes on the show, and I get pumped thinking about all these amazing black women working together and supporting each other and pushing the envelope together. No one accuses SNL of using that kind of nonsense. Angela Bassett is why I turned the show on, but she's not why I kept watching.
The thing I love most about this show is there's a SF element to most of the sketches, which is something I'm not used to in sketch comedy, but SF is my go to genre in general so I was psyched to see that as a recurring theme. Honestly, I usually don't like sketch shows and much prefer sitcoms or stand up, but ABLSS is amazing. Strong, successful, black women writing SF based comedy sketches. It's a dream come true. I hope they get a full 10 episode season 2
score 10/10
dredoo 23 October 2019
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