by Jameelah Mullen
March 29, 2024
The unusual reboot consists of an all-star cast and provocative storylines.
The trailer for Netflix's animated Good Times reboot has been released. It gives audiences a sneak peek into the R-rated series, which follows a new Evans family as they “scratch and survive” in modern Chi-Town.
The series features some of Black Hollywood's most iconic voices, including JB Smoove (Reggie), Yvette Nicole Brown (Beverly), Jay Pharoah (Junior), Marsai Martin (Grey), Gerald “Slink” Johnson (Dalvin), and Rashida “Sheedz” . “Olayiwola (Lashes by Lisa.) According to Netflix, the reboot will offer a new take on the Evans family, which comes first has invaded our homes and hearts in 1974. Like the original, the series tells the story of a married couple with three children. The eldest son, Junior, is an artist. But there is that Similarities end.
“An animated reboot of the Norman Lear series finds the newest generation of the Evans family, taxi driver Reggie and his wife, the ever-aspiring Beverly, scraping by and surviving in one of Chicago's last remaining housing projects along with their teenage artist son Junior, an activist -Daughter Gray and drug-dealing young son Dalvin. It turns out that the more things change, the more they stay the same, and keeping your head above water in a system with its knees on your neck is as challenging as ever. The only thing harder than life is love, but in this family there is more than enough to get by.”
Black Twitter(X) users quickly Weighed in to express their opinion on the R-rated reboot, some are calling it tasteless.
This is disrespectful and tasteless. They turned a series based on a solid, hard-working family into a cartoon caricature of black America. Tried to disguise it under the show “Good Times” smmfh. pic.twitter.com/rKZP2LPiTI
– AMK (@Famekom) March 27, 2024
“This is disrespectful and tasteless. They turned a series based on a solid, hard-working family into a cartoon caricature of black America. Tried to disguise it under the show Good Times, smmfh.”
User LucaGuadagnegro agreed.
I can tell that “Good Times” is a crude caricature of a neighborhood black family. I'm going to pass this on and I don't expect most black people to actually be entertained by it… pic.twitter.com/Yi3kOhv6t2
– Luca (@LucaGuadagnegro) March 27, 2024
Some users expressed their support for the new series.
“I walk right past the respectable Negro delegation and sit down with a drink to enjoy it. And yes, they should have called it something else, but that’s an unnecessary complaint,” said user @MakinghisSTory.
I walk right past the respectable Negro delegation and sit down with a drink to enjoy. And yes, they should have called it something else, but that's an unnecessary complaint.
— For Boys of Color Who Have Considered Podcasts (@MAKINGhisSTORY) March 27, 2024
Lear gave the series his seal of approval before his death in December 2023 and is considered an executive producer on the series.
The 10-part series will premiere on Netflix on April 12th. Will you tune in?
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