I thoroughly enjoy Black-ish and wanted to like this spinoff -but it's terrible. At the beginning of the season, I committed to watching the full first season with hopes that it would improve, but it's only getting worse.How these students manage to openly do drugs and drinks all over campus like it's completely normal is utterly ridiculous. This show also fails by making Yara Shahidi the main focus of every single episode; it's painful to hear her narrate and try to act through the episodes. As ridiculous as the storylines are, the show would be better served giving the other characters more screen time.

A very real, modern take on the college experience, this show follows Zoey Johnson as she discovers that life--and the real world--are much larger than what she was used to in high school and the Johnson household. The people that rated this badly seemed to expect a show about a girl going to college would only include classes and studying or something... but this is not that show.This is a wonderful representation of what college students this day and age face. Yes it's more mature than Black-ish, but that's kind of the point. Just like the shock of going from PG Black-ish to PG13 Grown-ish, Zoey herself is immediately overwhelmed at how utterly different and unprepared she really is for everything. Grown-ish still has that Black-ish feel with the way topics are handled and the narration, but it's not a clone which makes it more of its own show which I guess the naysayers were expecting. Where Dre narrates in Black-ish, Zoey often speaks and confides in the camera. A familiar yet slightly different approach which I find to be a nice little touch. It's like her and the audience are going through this roller-coaster together.The bottom line here is if you want a Black-ish clone with a 7th Heaven college experience, this show is not for you. But if you want a very real look at what Zoey Johnson would have to deal with as a freshman, then get that DVR ready. Because this show is every bit as brilliant as Black-ish and more.

Was hoping for so much more. In Blackish Zoe had good common sense, she wasn't perfect but had a good head on her shoulders. In Grownish there is no thought to being who she was, she's desperate & needy. This show to me is sad. Inappropriate to transfer the same audience from Blackish to this. This show goes in a totally different direction. They should have just created a show and not linked it to Blackish at all. Within 2 episodes she headed in a downward spiral. As a person who totally enjoys Blackish and watches it with my family. Some really touchy subjects are addressed but things turn out decent with a thought provoking ending. Grownish is totally opposite, not good decision making, touchy subjects gone bad and get worse with each episode. Unfortunately for me, my son mentioned the show to me, he watched it first. Had I seen it first, I never would have allowed him to watch it.... Thanks for showing my kid what not to do all the way around. Sex, Drugs, Lies, Irresponsibility...just about anything you can think of that was bad going on in college, you'll catch Zoe experiencing it. Sad spin-off.

I had high expectations for Grownish, but the premiere left me pretty disappointed. The acting and the script were pretty bad, and while voice over narration works well on Blackish, Yara's monotonous voice doesn't really entertain viewers when she does a voice over, which is for way too much of each episode. Each character seemed like an archetype and didn't have personality. What I like about Zoe in Blackish is her rudeness and cool girl personality, and that's missing in Grownish. I also feel like each episode is rushed, and there's not much focus on plot. The topics are relatable to college students, but I just don't think the jokes are being delivered well. If you liked the episode of Blackish when Zoe visited college, then you might like Grownish, but I didn't like that episode or what I saw so far of Grownish.