Good Times (2024)

Matt Roush says...

The late, great Norman Lear is listed among the executive producers (with Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane and Stephen Curry) of an edgy adult animated update of Lear’s groundbreaking 1970s sitcom about a Black family living in Chicago’s housing projects. The new Good Times is set amid our own turbulent times, with guns, drugs and gangs challenging the fourth generation of the Evans family occupying Apartment 17C. The voice cast includes Curb Your Enthusiasm’s J.B. Smoove and Community’s Yvette Nicole Brown as Reggie and Beverly Evans, the heads of their nuclear family that includes teenage Junior (Jay Pharoah), activist daughter Grey (black-ish breakout Marsai Martin) and Slink Johnson as breast-obsessed infant Dalvin, a kindred spirit to Family Guy’s Stewie. Lear appears in a cameo in the eighth episode, his last such appearance before his death at 101 in December.

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