Roc is an American television series which originally ran onFox network from August 25, 1991 to May 10, 1994. The series stars Charles S. Dutton as Baltimore garbage collector Roc Emerson and his nurse wife, Eleanor played by Ella Joyce.
ROC was a much more realistic look at a black family than we had on COSBY. Roc was a garbage collector and had a brother with drug issues. There was an interesting piece in the NYT on Sunday about ROC. Not many shows about lower middle class people from any race/ethnicity anymore.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the only place on television to see accurate depictions of lower-middle-class, working-class, and straight-up below-the-poverty-line lives is on "reality" shows like "COPS", "Hoarders", and "My 600-Pound Life" (an important show, IMHO, for clearly delineating the connection between poverty and obesity in our country). Fictional depictions of working-class life are to me either condescending or ersatz "inspirational". I'll take a hoarding show any day.
I'd have to say that the freak-show exploitation of those "reality" shows is rather distant from any lack of condescending distortion. Much of my extended family is of the lower middle class, and oddly enough the better episodes of ROSEANNE have more resemblance to their reality than anything I've ever seen on COPS...which carries about as much universal application as its parody, RENO 911. Might as well say REAL HOUSEWIVES is representative of the upper middle class.
ROC could be a bit heavy-handed...and was a bit more representative of Some back families, even as THE COSBY SHOW was sitcom about well-to-do black families (which soon devolved into Cosby hugging at small children for half of any episode). There are a number of folks by that description, as well.
Of course, the most clangorous example of economic struggling in the US of late has been SHAMELESS, which despite borderline surrealism does get across the coping v. giving up ethics. BROAD CITY more or less likewise, even if the protagonists are relatively boho.
A&A was about a mixture of middle class, working class and scuffling by characters...and on the tv series, at least the actors were African-Americans...
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Roseanne, obviously.
ReplyDeleteWe never watched Roc.
Oh, you meant on now. Never mind.
ReplyDeleteOh, you meant on now. Never mind.
ReplyDeleteRoseanne, obviously.
ReplyDeleteWe never watched Roc.
I'm pretty sure I never watched this show.
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ReplyDeleteFresh Off the Boat? Blackish? Not that I watch them, but I'm aware they exist.
ReplyDeleteThey are not lower middles,
ReplyDeleteI'll have to be honest, Patti; I never saw this one. But I agree there aren't a lot of shows that feature lower middle class people.
ReplyDeleteI've said it before and I'll say it again, the only place on television to see accurate depictions of lower-middle-class, working-class, and straight-up below-the-poverty-line lives is on "reality" shows like "COPS", "Hoarders", and "My 600-Pound Life" (an important show, IMHO, for clearly delineating the connection between poverty and obesity in our country). Fictional depictions of working-class life are to me either condescending or ersatz "inspirational". I'll take a hoarding show any day.
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ReplyDeleteI vaguely remember this being on but never watched it
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ReplyDeleteI'd have to say that the freak-show exploitation of those "reality" shows is rather distant from any lack of condescending distortion. Much of my extended family is of the lower middle class, and oddly enough the better episodes of ROSEANNE have more resemblance to their reality than anything I've ever seen on COPS...which carries about as much universal application as its parody, RENO 911. Might as well say REAL HOUSEWIVES is representative of the upper middle class.
ReplyDeleteROC could be a bit heavy-handed...and was a bit more representative of Some back families, even as THE COSBY SHOW was sitcom about well-to-do black families (which soon devolved into Cosby hugging at small children for half of any episode). There are a number of folks by that description, as well.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the most clangorous example of economic struggling in the US of late has been SHAMELESS, which despite borderline surrealism does get across the coping v. giving up ethics. BROAD CITY more or less likewise, even if the protagonists are relatively boho.
ReplyDeleteA&A was about a mixture of middle class, working class and scuffling by characters...and on the tv series, at least the actors were African-Americans...
ReplyDeleteThat was mugging, which my spellchecker decided couldn't be correct. If Cosby had stopped at only mugging...
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