Angela BensonYou have to watch this show! Now I’m only on my first episode but I can tell this one is a winner!
It’s a family drama playing on ABC Family. The central characters are an African-American family. You’ll have to check your cable guide for channel number and day. You can find out more about the show here: http://a51.abcfamily.go.com/shows/lincolnheights/
Here’s how the show is described in wikipedia:
Lincoln Heights is an American drama television series about a cop’s family who moves back to his old neighborhood of Lincoln Heights to start a new life and to help his old neighborhood. It’s a dangerous place to raise a family, and through the many trials the family goes through they soon learn that settling in is not as easy as it seems. While the dad struggles to cope with everyday life as a street cop, the kids try to fit in at their new schools and with their new neighbors.
I like that wikipedia doesn’t mention the AA factor; maybe it shows that it doesn’t matter.
Check out the show and let me know what you think. The second season starts here in about eight minutes. I guess I’ll have to go to the itunes store and download the first season. You get the pilot episode for free and the others are $1.99.
I’m so excited! I can’t believe I missed an entire season!
Angela,
This show looked like it could be interesting. I never could find it on cable. I’ll check netflix to see if they have the first season.
This is the second season of this show. I like the fact that the family seems real, but I would not have moved back to the hood with my family. Maybe you can find the first season on DVD.
You know, Gabrielle, I was thinking much the same thing. I saw the end of the last show of last season and the beginning of the first show of this season. I have to tell you, after that mini-riot I would have been speed-dialing that realtor!
Do you think somone can be “called by God” to bring their family into that type situation?
I also worry that some character I really care about will be killed. Then I wonder if that kind of violence really exists. It seems a bit over the top to me. Maybe I just don’t understand the world outside of “my world.”
This is my second season of this show. I COULDN’T WAIT FOR THIS SEASON! I don’t think they will kill off the stars of this show, but I have been wrong about these things. I was afraid the show would be cancelled after last season but I’m pleased it didn’t. I encouraged my students (high school) to watch it because it teaches some great lessons. I hope more people will start watching this show because we know how shows with predominately black casts can get cancelled.
This is my second season of this show. I COULDN’T WAIT FOR THIS SEASON! I am ashamed to say I used to watch the shows online during my break at work because they post them weekly if you miss an episode. I don’t think they will kill off the stars of this show, but I have been wrong about these things. I was afraid the show would be cancelled after last season but I’m pleased it didn’t. I encouraged my students (high school) to watch it because it teaches some great lessons. I hope more people will start watching this show because we know how shows with predominately black casts can get cancelled.
This is the second season for me too. I missed several episodes because I was doing homework (only a year to go). I was afraid the show would be cancelled after last season because GOOD black shows tend to be, but I’m pleased that it came back. I hope more people will start watching this show beccause it’s realistic without every other word being filthy and foul, plus the actors are good.
Too bad that I can’t even afford TV. I mostly don’t miss it but when someone writes about a show like this, it really makes me itch to see it.
Another one is Ken Burns’s “War” on PBS. If I want any TV, I really have to cut down on the costs of both telephone and Internet. Long distance phoning is no problem. What really gets me is the $55 “connection fee” that you have to pay whenever you move, even if it’s just to a different apartment in the same building. For years, Bell Canada has had a monopoly on phone service here in Ontario and a few other provinces but it’s ridiculous what they charge for just basic service. I pay over $100 a month just for phone and Internet. That’s 10% of my total income.
Therefore, no TV until I can figure out a way to reduce my other telecommunications costs.
Angela, I guess you met your deadline, did you? I still haven’t read “The Amen Sisters” or any other ones except the one I mentioned recently. They’re all still down in the “pit”. Kind of upsets me. I’m really stuck with what I can do. My moving crews always get things more balled up than necessary. If I had the little shelf-hangers for the German shelving unit I brought back, I could have sorted out a good deal of my books and put them on shelves. But no, the guys put them in an unmarked box–probably one at the very back of the storage area–so who knows when I’ll finally come up with them.
Please pray that I may get back on track. These summer months have been very hard on me. One friend moved away to Sarnia across the Detroit River (or thereabouts) from Port Huron, MI. The other one has been in Switzerland visiting her new grand-baby and probably also helping her other daughter get ready for her wedding on our Thanksgiving weekend. Two of my siblings and spouses were away (separately) for 2-3 weeks travelling in western Canada to weddings (bro &s-i-l) and conferences (sis & br-i-l) on how to raise Highland Cattle (they look almost like yaks).
Sorry, not corrected. Too tired/
Excellent show. I’ve been watching for a couple weeks and it’s so good to see young black folks not portrayed as thugs.
Sigrun, to watch this show you don’t need the tv. If you have internet, you can view the episodes of the show on abcfamily.com. That is how I stayed caught up last year since they didn’t keep playing the reruns of the show during the week like they started off in the season.
Go to abc family’s home page…they are playing season 1