She explains that she broke up with Davis because Dre still can’t accept her being a sexual person. She knows he wasn’t having a heart attack. The scene is too much for Davis, who leaves while Ruby places healing hands on Dre, demanding the demons of sickness leave her baby. When Dre sees them kissing, he fakes a heart attack to get Ruby’s attention. She returns to the main house with Davis. Pops tries to seduce Ruby: He dyes his hair, plays Jodeci, and wears a South African amulet, but Ruby doesn’t fall for his tricks. (That doesn’t stop Dre from accepting his offer of Clippers tickets, though.) Dre turns to Pops, who becomes jealous and threatened by Davis’s youthful good looks. Though his family enjoys Davis, Dre is increasingly determined to get rid of him. They’re calling him “Pop Pop” since he’s twice as strong as Pops. Though Daphne’s appearance at the Johnsons’ for Christmas didn’t go well, there’s plenty of time left in the season for Black-ish to do some course correction.Īfter leaving work, Dre comes home to find the twins with Davis. Without Charlie, any jump into the ad agency feels jarring. (We still miss you, Deon Cole!) Charlie slid between Dre’s work and home lives, which allowed the transition between scenes to work smoothly. In Charlie’s absence, Wanda Sykes’s Daphne has stepped up to serve as a replacement, but there’s something missing. Dre feels even worse.īlack-ish is a few episodes into its post-Charlie future, and Dre’s workplace just doesn’t feel the same without him. (In other words, they buy him nice clothes.) Also, he adds, “Golden Girls like to get down,” but can’t get pregnant.
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In fact, Curtis prefers to date older women because they know how to take care of him. Why else would he be attracted to an older woman? At work, Curtis mocks this ridiculous theory - after all, there’s nothing perverted about dating older women. However, Dre decides Davis must be a pervert. Bow loves Davis, and especially loves his plans to take Ruby around the world, which would get her mother-in-law out of her hair for a long time. Pops assures Dre that any man who dates Ruby must be an old geezer, so there’s no way she’s having sex.ĭre feels better until he and Bow meet Ruby’s new man, the young and handsome Davis (LaMonica Garrett, formerly of Sons of Anarchy). Dre can’t cope with this news and tries to soothe himself by humming the pre-battle spiritual from Glory.
Ruby wants Dre to meet her new “passionate and firm lover,” a restaurant owner she met on, a dating site that caters to women with a ratchet lifestyle. Dre didn’t have a problem with those flings, but he couldn’t accept Ruby dating.įlash forward to the present day, where Dre still can’t handle the idea that his mother has romantic needs. Pops, on the other hand, had a steady flow of much-younger women he’d introduce as Dre’s potential new mother. Eventually, Ruby stopped bringing dates around. When he was younger, he’d push Ruby’s suitors down the stairs, complete with a Dikembe Mutombo finger wag, to make clear they weren’t welcome in his house.
It can be traumatizing to learn your parents are sexual beings - or it was for Dre, at least. Is it any wonder why this is one of the best family sitcoms on television? This week’s episode of Black-ish is a Trojan horse: You think you’re watching Dre overreact about his mother’s love life, but you also get lessons about the sacrifices of single parenthood, the double standards of dating, and even catfishing. Photo: Vivian Zink/© 2015 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
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