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black-ish – Season 2, Episode 1 The Word

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black-ish – Season 2, Episode 1

The Word

Aired Sep 23, 2015

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Jack nearly gets expelled when he performs a song with lyrics containing an offensive word at a school talent show.

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LaToya Ferguson

AV Club

09/11/2018

A-

On a strategic level, beginning the season with an episode focusing on an issue as heavily-debated as the n-word is kind of necessity for the show; as buzzed about as the episode's topic may be.

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Emily St. James

Vox

09/10/2018

THE Word manages to offer up a surprisingly complete history of this horrific slur, all while never once speaking it out loud and while telling some great jokes.

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Clover Hope

Jezebel

09/10/2018

This episode of Blackish was far from radical; it just kept talking.

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Chris Cabin

Collider

09/10/2018

4/5

The side plot suggests a thoughtful consideration of the gap between personal comforts and societal responsibilities, which have been central to the sitcom format but rarely have been pulled off with such humility, humor, and lived-in experience.

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Stereo Williams

The Daily Beast

09/10/2018

The episode goes to great lengths to try to wring commentary and comedy out of one of society's most hot-button topics, addressing non-black appropriation of the word while also spoofing white indignation at not being "allowed" to use the term.

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Synopsis

Jack nearly gets expelled when he performs a song with lyrics containing an offensive word at a school talent show.

Director: Matt Sohn
Executive Producer: Kenya Barris, Larry Wilmore, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Sugland, Tom Russo, E. Brian Dobbins, Peter Principato, Paul Young, James Griffiths
Screenwriter: Kenya Barris
Network: ABC
Rating: TV-PG
Genre: Comedy, Entertainment
Original Language: English
Release Date: Sep 23, 2015

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