SpicyBrown45 Gave this show a 10 because of just how much I look forward to watching it every week! Current, relatable topics from episode to episode. Will get your family discussing important concepts/ ideas and sharing healthy opinions! Arguments are well-balanced with a multitude of viewpoints clearly representative of the thoughtful conversations that took place in the writers' room. Love the script and humor immensely! Perfectly cast with the hilarious David Grier and Loretta Devine as Jerrod Carmichael's parents. The show's also set in NC which makes me especially biased...can't wait for tonight's episode! Hooray Jerrod, way to make NC proud!

Hunter Vogt While not every episode of The Carmichael Show's first season was good, all the episodes had good funny moments, and many of them discussed some very real issues. It is far from a perfect show, but if it becomes able to consistently present good episodes that explore serious issues I will be very pleased. While some characters are more entertaining than the others, specifically Jerrod's parents Cynthia and Joe, all have their good moments. From the first season, the forth episode, "Gender", was mediocre, and the second episode, "Protest", was alright, but episode six "Guns" was pretty good, the pilot episode was good, and episodes three and five, "Kale" and "Prayer", were really good. If you want to try out The Carmichael Show, I would start with either "Kale" or "Prayer", and if you like those, watch "Guns", as the order of the episodes does not really matter, and the episodes "Gender", "Protest", and "Guns" are the more strongly issue focused ones. If you like shows that are funny, but also talk about issues that are real, such as protesting, gender identity, and gun control, from a fairly unbiased perspective, then The Carmichael Show is one that you would enjoy.

vividii There is something about this show I really like. I absolutely love the parents and the brother. The brother and wife relationship is funny also. The two main characters, however, are just okay. Jerrod's delivery is dry, as someone else already stated. It may be good for stand up but there isn't much difference between his comedic and serious lines.The episodes were just jam-packed with way too much for a half hour; the season packed with too many big issues and back to back episodes every week. Too much too soon. I would have enjoyed it more with less. I would have had more time to savor the really funny punch lines that kind of get lost in the episode.The premise of the the pilot alone could have made for a whole season's worth of material. They could have divided some of those other big issues into smaller bits and incorporated them throughout the season.All that being said, I like it. There's some really good acting and comedy there. I just hope it gets better so I can love it.

lorne-sal This comedy is a throwback to All in the Family and The Jeffersons. America needs this real bad now. It is needed precisely because it IS all about race in the age of Ferguson, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland etc. It also had me in stitches as it has some of the same perspective as Boondocks, which always cracked me up as well as being deep and insightful. Like Boondocks, it highlights in an entertaining way the predominance of apathy, fear and short sighted viewpoints that stop people from getting out in the streets and confronting injustice and racism. The parents are brilliantly acted, and the disengaged Carmichael is a perfect foil to raise difficult topics. Recommending this to my politically active friends and family.