Thank you, Leon for showing me this. I've never been so destroyed so much in one sitting.
Life After Hurricane Katrina Inspires Sitcom
"Even though the hurricane is over, the real storm is just beginning."
From the Houston Business Journal:
A familiar local story has developed a new twist with the premiere of a sitcom based on life in Houston after Hurricane Katrina.
"As for Me & My House" tells the story of a blended family after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.
Nicole is a Houston attorney with two young kids she hardly sees due to her hard-charging schedule.
Her sister Michelle is a feisty hairdresser from New Orleans who has three kids and is a wonderful mother who can relate to her kids even as she doses them with tough love. When New Orleans is hit by Katrina, they flee to Houston to start over.
The entire enterprise, from production company to the show's lead actors, represents a local affair.
The idea was the brainchild of Lionel Hillard of Houston-based Black Genie Entertainment. Houston-based Big Powerful Media co-produced, and actors are well-known local favorites.
"As for Me & My House" premiered on KNWS Channel 51 on Jan. 20.
A total of 13 episodes are currently being planned.
WHAT ARE THE FEET ABOUT???!!!!
The caption reads: "Michelle relaxes after spending a night in the Astrodome."
And she's probably in the bathtub sassing up the joint right after spending the night before searching for family members and nursing wounds after being starved and dehydrated in a flooded city.
Yeah, okay.
http://www.myspace.com/katrinasitcom
**Please mentally prepare yourself to hear As For Me and My House's theme song**
The show's Myspace page boasts:
"From the creative team headed by award-winning Writer/Producer, Lionell Hilliard, whose list of credits include "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air", "Sister/Sister", "The Bernie Mac Show" and "Girlfriends," comes a brand-new television sit-com about a blended Houston family coping with life after Hurricane Katrina."
They must mean the janitorial team of those shows put this together (no offense to janitorial teams anywhere). Seriously though, did they lose a bet? If the show's creators know how to create good African American comedy, why are they bothering with this drivel?
As For Me And My House Trailer
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Let's see if the show meets it ni**atry quota:
Big black woman dancing - CHECK
Extra dramatical personalities - CHECK
Jacked up hair weaves - CHECK
Two or more black women arguing - CHECK
Mispronunciation of basic words - CHECK
Lame, lame, lame ass jokes reminiscent of BET's Comic View - CHECK
Mentioning the virtues of keeping one's legs closed - CHECK
A young child that can't act worth a damn (the boy) - CHECK
Big Black woman overreacting in pseudo victory - CHECK
40 oz. bottle of beer - CHECK
Drunk heffa - CHECK
PASSED
Why are these heffas so loud?
Why is this so ignorant?
Did they shoot this with a cell phone camera?
I'm not angry about the existence of this show. I'm not upset at the show writer's vision of what the life of a Hurricane Katrina evacuee or a black family unit is like....
I take issue with the fact that they umbrella this tripe under the heading of comedy. It's so pathetic looking, so stereotypical, so silly and so unfunny that I cannot imagine any viewer regularly viewing or taking this show seriously.
I completely support the arts, expression, creativity and competent black actors working, but As For Me and My House contains none of the above.
There is one good outcome of this: Tyler Perry does NOT have to lose any sleep about As For Me and My House encroaching on the dynamic that is Tyler Perry's House of Payne. Mr. Perry's loud, unfunny and terribly acted portion of African American television territory is safe for now.
