She the People

I will continue to watch because I adore TC Carson & Terri J Vaughn. I also love Dyon Brooks on social media. But I don't think anyone is utilized well. They need to reign in Jade Novah & Jo Marie Payton's characters because they go off on their tangents too long. To the point where I have fast forwarded through them. I hate to say I fast forwarded through a lot of it because...hey, we get it...Mississippi is racist. She was having a tough time being accepted as a Black Lt. Gov. In a red state. We didn't need the mansion tour, the pig calling contest AND the apple orchard. Each segment took up a lot of the episode, along with the drawn out mystery about who wrote the note on the jam. I want it to succeed, hopefully it will go faster with the next 8 episodes. It really didn't have to take 8 episodes for this. I finished them in about 2 hours fast forwarding through the slow parts.

Being a senior Black male who has lived in the south all his life and suffered from racial predjudices more times than I can count...I feel the show is demeaning. I am currently on episode 7 and the ways Black people are being portrayed is terrible. I appreciate Mr. Perry for many things he has done, but this one needs massive change. The only funny part I have seen is when the daughter was doing gymnastics. Other than that, I fail to see the humor. Whereas I am sure the intent was different, we see enough of the demeaning depictions of our nation from others, so we don't need it from our own.

I watched the first episode (and the first few minutes of the second) with some of my family. It didn't really pick up for me until a scene where Terri J Vaughn's character goes to get her daughter from a party. That's kind of when things seem to happen, but then the episode is almost over. But before then, it was not all that to me. Putting my feelings aside about Tyler Perry's content, I just didn't think it was all that funny. A couple of lines here and there were amusing, and one in the second episode I thought was legitimately very funny regarding a suit. I love Terri J Vaughn, and she's the only reason I sat through as much as I did, even considering how awesome it is to have Jo Marie Payton here too. But the writing doesn't help. Not only because of the jokes that don't work, but he still writes to serve the profanity, instead of the dialogue. When you say something funny, it's not the cursing that makes it funny, it's what you're saying that makes it funny. But too much of this script is just about him still trying to show people that he's not the same Tyler Perry that he used to be, and it suffers for that. That's all that stands out when it's not written well, no matter your "work ethic". It's not the worst thing I've ever seen, not even from him and it wouldn't be fair for me to say that having just seen one complete episode. I don't think I'm going to be watching much more of it though.

This show is colourful with bags of energy, but ultimately the jokes have been done a thousand times - to better effect - and it's just not that funny.

Some scenes stretch out for what feels like an eternity and you wonder if they kept the cameras rolling until someone in production laughed and then yelled cut.

The only characters with potential are the cousin and her boyfriend whose interactions are amusing, but still not comical enough to call this a successful comedy.

The saving grace is that each episode is less than 25 minutes, so you don't waste too much time deciding if it's worth continuing through the series. I gave up at episode 6.

I watched the entire series. It was good to see Terri Vaughn not playing her typical dumb character role. She states the show is based on her friend from the hood who became the mayor of San Francisco.

The writing on the show is a 90s comedy skit that needs work. American Black people wouldn't sit back and let White people talk to them in a negative manner no matter where they worked. Tyler Perry did add an additional writer this time, Niya Palmer who worked on The Game and Run the World, but it seems he overpowered her!

I will continue supporting Tyler for building a table that keeps Black actors working and finds hidden gems. He has been the opportunity for a lot top-tier Black actors get paid for the first time anywhere near their worth. Tyler gets the actors but the writing and directing is weak. He'll get it right when he starts to give up more control of the scripts and directing. Tyler built the house and it's his decision. Black people must love ourselves in our full glory and tell our own stories. Don't bend your creative perspectives in order to be accepted by other ethnic groups.