What a good thread but very difficult to respond to because my definition of anti-Black has evolved and so I was seeing things through a different lens.
I was too yuong to really understand the nuances of Good Times, but it never felt funny or light. Always heavy. Jeffersons to me was great cuz it actually made me laugh, but compare Good Times to something like Leave it to BEaver, and they are two completely different depictions. And as good as Esther Rolle was, I wasn't buying her as the wife. Why would James wife that up? My older cousins always had it on so I had no choice but to watch, I was never into it and as an adult I can see why
There's really only a handful of memorable episodes and Webster was an even more watered down version of that trope. There is a show I was really into (cuz I loved detective shows growing up)---but since George Floyd I don't have the stomach for-- and that is Psych. Dule Hill be soft shoeing in it, but as far as a technically, consistently well written show, it fit the bill. My aversion for anything police related has peaked and I can't even do the cognitive dissonance anymore tho.
