Chuck Lorre's latest CBS sitcom depicts a sweet courtship between a lonely white businessman and a Nigerian immigrant nurse.
is a sitcom about vulnerability. Over his career, the uber-producer has explored aging, poverty, addiction, corpulence, single parenthood, neurodivergence and other experiences that can leave a person in the margins of American life. On its surface, CBS' sweet multicamis another open-hearted Lorrean romantic comedy about folks from opposite perspectives coming together against the odds, à la.
I'm happy to report my concerns were unfounded due to the show's surprising level of nuance, which rendersIs the show perfect in every possible facet of cultural representation, including the complete avoidance of racism for laughs? Unfortunately, no. Does it feature characters conducting entire subtitled conversations in Yoruba, one of the many languages spoken in Nigeria? Excitingly, yes.
After waking up in a recovery room, he spies fresh-faced cardiac nurse Abishola and immediately imprints on her. She snubs his tepid flirting — "Do people call you Abby?" "No! Go back and wash your hands" — but as soon as she sings to him in her native language to help calm his nerves, he's a complete goner. By the end of the episode, he's delivering her premium socks in a dorky bid at wooing.
While Abishola's instincts tell her to remain cautious of Bob's interest, her girlfriends at the hospital are as tickled about the courtship as her aunt and uncle. In one eye-opening lunchtime scene, they discuss the ethnic hierarchy of who Abishola would choose to marry. As her spunky busybody friend Kemi explains, "Top of the list, Nigerian man — same tribe . Then, Nigerian man — different tribe . Then, other Africans . Obviously. Then Caribbean. Then white. Then African American.
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