Words By Thembi

I’d be a liar if I said I watched Tyler Perry’s Meet The Browns thinking I would enjoy it. I have a pretty low tolerance for mispronounced English, hackneyed jokes, abysmal acting, and an even lower tolerance for black men in drag; a Tyler Perry mainstay. So instead of setting the bar unfairly high, I watched the double feature premiere of Meet The Browns in comparison to Perry’s movies and the “most popular cable television sitcom,” House Of Payne. While House of Payne is just not my cup of tea, Meet The Browns had one of the most offensively poor sitcom premieres I have ever watched, making House of Payne look like reasonable entertainment.

I’m not sure who is loving his stuff, but the audience is huge and — as poor as this show was — shows no signs of slimming. Perry’s shows account for half of the black sitcoms Read the rest of this entry »