i posted over on AKA ave, but im not particularly impressed. im so madddddd cause i had high hopes :(

hayle, IM ready to beat bruno down. aside from Rose, who seems really open and honest, i dont know how inclined to watch it anymore.

i'm real mad at the etiquette lessions. like black folks dont know how to act at the dinner table?

p.s. i dont know any white people who have taken etiquette classes. but i have, and i'm not white or middle class.

what happens if anyone is found out? Rose keeps saying that shes scared people are gonna know she's white, but what if someone calls her on it?

i guess i have to watch huh?

Exactly. Bruno needs to go to the Benz dealership not Carmax.

The show repeats Sunday night at midnight.

ETA: USA Today review gives it 1 1/2 stars out of 4

Yeah. Also, why does the son look like Michael Jackson in his makeup? The white daughter looked the most authentic; the white father looked like someone coated him with shoe polish.

I am somewhat disappointed; I really wish that they had gone a lot deeper. If they had kept the participants in their makeup for the entire time of the filming so that they could become immersed in the experience it would ring more true to me. Taking the makeup off at the end of the day makes all of the experiences superficial IMHO.

I will continue to watch it though.

I instantly thought of GC when I read this!
 

Color Commentary
FX's creepy new race-swap show.
By Troy Patterson
Posted Wednesday, March 8, 2006, at 4:59 PM ET

The first problem with Black. White. (FX, Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET) as a serious documentary about race relations is also its first asset as an uncommonly charged bit of reality TV: The show's central figure, Bruno Marcotulli, is a regular guy with a big mouth and a closed mind. While he's a lousy lab rat—too stubborn and dumb to produce anything that might be described as a "thought" about race—he's an excellent jackass, and his personality is as good a mirror as any for reflecting some of the grotesque curlicues of American society.

Bruno and his family (partner Carmen Wurgel and her 18-year-old daughter, Rose) are the white family participating in a two-way project about passing. They share a house in the San Fernando Valley with a black family, the Sparkses (father Brian, mother Renee, and son Nick), and each of the six climbs into the chair of an Oscar-nominated makeup artist for a convincing racial makeover a few times each week. The producers then loose them upon greater Los Angeles—Beverly Hills to Baldwin Hills, Santa Monica to Leimert Park—tracking them on cameras that are hidden within handbags or present under the pretense that the filmmakers are simply doing a project about "family."

Grinning, good-humored Bruno is creepy on several levels. You could chalk up the fact that he is plainly turned on at first seeing Carmen in her makeup to universal perversities about sex and color, but how to account for the tear streaming down his blackface? He signed up for the show in a confrontational spirit. "I just wanted to really poke into the issue of race and see if any flames would emerge," he tells the camera near the top of tonight's episode. Elsewhere, he's kind of bummed out upon leaving a black comedy club, "I wish they had done more white jokes, frankly." And when he says, "I'm kind of waiting for somebody to say, 'Hey, n*****r!' " he does so in a tone that others might use to say, "I can't wait to see V for Vendetta."

Read the rest here....

Soror I agree. I thought that they would stay "in character" for all 6 weeks. Taking it off makes it seem like they are just going to a costume party or taking a vacation away from life as a ____ person.

yeah i wondered that too...

i feel bad that the show isnt getting favorable reviews. i wonder how ice cube feels... maybe he let corpAmer get in the way of the message?

Bruno doesn't look Black. That's the first problem. He looks like an Indian or someone with a horrible tan. So, I really don't see him getting treated Black that often.

The Black people all look ridiculous. Renee just looks light skinned, Brian looks mixed, and the son looks like a MJ impersonator.

Rose will probably get the most out of this. Bruno just wants to prove that the nice guy always wins, but he's not in any realistic situations. He's shopping in a wealthy area where they are going to be highly service oriented, regardless of race.

I really want to know where they are going that requires African garb. What Black people have they seen dress like that? Also, there's nothing that stops them from wearing that stuff as white people.

Thanks Conskeeted, that is just what is wrong with this show. They don't look real. The only real looking one is the daughter. She looks better black. I think she is the one who is really in for the learning experience and maybe the son.

Renee does not look white. Personally, I don't even like her. Too much ghetto attitude. I thought someone in the "group" she was with would say something (was this even real? :rolleyes: cause she really looks Hispanic or just a light-skinned sister wearing a wig)

The biggest problem I have is with the white Dad (Bruno). He is the biggest dummy!!! And the black Dad (Brian) aint that far behind him.

All in all I think that this show will really win some awards!!!!


(Just jiving yall, just jiving)

"Jiving" (who the hell says that anymore?) :rolleyes:

I saw it too and had a few laughs.

Bruno is just plain. He may never see what Brian sees and Brain wants him to see "IT", but Bruno wants someone to call him a N****r so he can be proud of his reaction.

Rose is my girl. We could hang. When she was in character and at the poem slam, I could relate. I've been in situations like Rose, where I am talking and people kinda back away from me. Or don't know how to react to thing I say. I had a lady tell me that I do to talk too proper and she could not understand what I was saying because I used "big words". I encounter this at work, when I'm talking and I see my clients parents kinda back away from me and give me this, "I don't understand you look". But I've gotten use to it.

They are supposed to be attending church.:o

Tonight's bar scene with Renee and the White guy -- very interesting.

Rose is alright with me. :)

Do I really want to look at this ignant mess on my DVR tonight???

Debating....

Buffy...

Black.White.

Buffy....

Black.White.

Buffy wins. I think I'll brave Black.White tommorrow.:o

Why couldn't Renee be frank with Carmen while shopping?
Just tell her that you really don't think the dashiki would be appropriate to wear for your first time visiting a Black church. And that oftentimes you will see people in suits and dresses.

:rolleyes: @ Renee
:rolleyes: @ Bruno
*sigh* at Carmen
:confused: @ the teenage son
:) @ Rose