‘“We are living the American dream,” they proclaim… and then Janine shows up, just as inappropriate (“Hola!”) as she once was with the Johnsons.
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In the series finale button, we see a new couple moving into the old Johnson home in Sherman Oaks: A Latino husband and wife, played by Salvador Chacon and Ariella Amar. Zoey (Yara Shahidi) is also there, as the family throws roses into a coffin… and then a band shows up, playing “When the Saints Go Marching In.” As they dance on the street, out comes more of the show’s cast and crew - and the soundtrack turns to Stevie Wonder’s “As.” That’s when Dre decides to throw a New Orleans-style funeral and wake for their house. Laughter, heartbreak, births - a lot of births. “I keep telling myself, these are just four walls but it feels so much bigger than that,” Dre says. Junior (Marcus Scribner) is still a bit sad about the move: “I realized, It’s not just over for me this time, it’s over for all of us.” And later, as Bow and Dre walk through the empty rooms of their old house, they too feel a bit of unfinished business. But the only thing that was stolen was my heart… And a long sleeved sweatshirt that was int he backseat of your car that I assumed you weren’t wearing because it had shoulder pads in it.” But I’ve got you.”Īt the advertising firm, Stevens (Peter Mackenzie) is relieved that “it’s not because of something I’ve said,” while Charlie (Deon Cole) reveals that “when I first came here my plan was to steal your identity. She responds: “The fact that you don’t think I’m doing that right now is very cute. “Freelancing, but take a step back, which means you’d be carrying the load,” he tells Bow. In making a change, Dre also decides to leave Stevens and Lido, and spend more time at home. Jack (Miles Brown) is sold: ” Finally a house to match my lifestyle!”īut that’s not all. But then they visit their new home, which appears to be in Baldwin Hills, overlooking the city. The Johnson kids are skeptical at first: “I would like to start the emancipation process,” quips Diane (Marsai Martin). “I was told my entire life that I needed to move out of my neighborhood if I wanted to succeed. The couple decides to sell their Sherman Oaks home and move to a Black neighborhood. She told me to blow up my life.”īow is in agreement: “I think we should blow this bitch up.” I think we should listen to 4-time Olympic Gold medalist Simone Biles.
Says Dre: “Life is too short to not go after what you really want. When Dre broaches the topic with Bow, she too admits, “Between the election and the pandemic, it’s making me reconsider what’s important.” Later, while working on a campaign at Stevens and Lido, Dre encounters legendary gymnast Simone Biles, who gives him more food for thought: “What is it that you want? If I’ve learned anything, you have to do what you want to do and not what anyone else wants you to do.” Ever since we moved in, there has always been a sense that we were oddities.” (Cut to the infamous clip from the original episode of a tour bus passing by the Johnson home, noting “The Mythical and Majestic Black Family.”) “17 years on the same street and the whole neighborhood was still whispering about us behind our backs. “Maybe I was living the Black American dream because stuff like that happens every day,” Dre clarifies later. When nosy Janine (Nicole Sullivan) stops by and asks if their house is for sale, Dre and Bow start to wonder if it really is time to move on. And if he was, he should have mentioned the part about how when brothers start getting a little money, stuff starts getting a little weird.”)īut with Dre’s reunited parents (Laurence Fishburne and Jenifer Lewis) moving out, the boxes in their driveway has the neighborhood wondering if the entire Johnson family is departing. The only problem is, whatever American had this dream probably wasn’t where I’m from. I guess for a kid from the hood, I’m living the American dream. That’s why I promised my parents I’d get an education, graduate, and get myself out of there. We’re lucky, we’ve got a great house, four great kids, and my pops. And despite what she looks like right now, she’s a doctor. This drooling pigment-challenge mixed-race woman is my wife, Rainbow. (Compare that to the pilot’s opening narration: “Okay, so I’m just your standard, regular, old incredibly handsome, unbelievably charismatic Black dude.