TV review: Mixedish
) has often worked to orient her own experience as a biracial woman with those of her husband, Dre , and their kids, bristling when people don’t consider her “black enough” to understand true struggle. On “Mixed-ish,” she narrates the story of her childhood and the difficulty of growing up in a world in which being biracial was far from the norm.
Here, “Mixed-ish” pulls a classic “Black-ish” and dives deep into the history of what it means to be biracial in America, including a rapid-fire breakdown of miscegenation laws and a list of today’s most prominent biracial pop culture figures. For all the ground it covers, there’s not nearly enough time, but in fairness, just about every pilot has the same problem.
It’ll also be telling to see how “Mixed-ish” deals with how it dovetails with and diverges from the stories “Black-ish” has told about Bow and her family. The casting alone is at turns confusing and intriguing. Gosselaar is playing the epitome of whiteness, but in real life he’s multiracial.On “Black-ish,” Bow’s mother is played by Smith, an actor with a lighter skin tone more similar to Ross’ than to that of Sumpter, who plays the younger version of Bow’s mother on “Mixed-ish.
How “Mixed-ish” chooses to engage with this revised aspect of Bow’s family remains to be seen, but it could certainly make for some deeper discussions of the nuanced differences between black realities. It would help, too, if “Mixed-ish” gives Sumpter more to work with in future episodes than it does in the pilot, in which she largely serves to balance the goofier energies of Gosselaar and Gary Cole as Bow’s Reagan-worshipping grandfather.
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