Television

The Upshaws 2021

Created by Regina Y. Hicks, Wanda Sykes

  • Comedy, Family, Drama
  • 5 seasons
  • 60 episodes
  • Ended
  • TV-MA

They're back and as imperfect as ever.

Bennie Upshaw, the head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis, is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to step up and care for his family and tolerate his sardonic sister-in-law, all without a blueprint for success.

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Contemporary, classical in form, comic and effortless.

  • contemporarynostalgic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • gravecomic
  • effortlessdemanding
  • warmbleak

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