All I’ve got to say is it’s about time. According to the grapevine, 20 new episodes of Aaron McGruder’s show, The Boondocks, is slated to start airing this Fall.
This hit cartoon series, stemmed from the popular satiric comic strip of the same name, was Adult Swim‘s highest-ranked series premiere, when the show debuted in Fall 2005. This is a lot more than just a cartoon series based around Black characters… it’s show that goes much more deeper than that. It used humour as a tool to speak on social issues and expose the irony that exists in it. Nothing is sugar-coated in hopes of being real (including the use of the N-word on the show). Hopefully viewers understand this a look a little further under the surface to see what smart writing exists and understand what points are being made.
If you haven’t watched an episode of The Boondocks as yet, here’s the premise:
When Robert “Granddad” Freeman becomes the legal guardian of his rambunctious grandkids, he moves the family from the south side of Chicago to the quiet and safety of “The Boondocks” — aka suburban Woodcrest — in hopes that he can ignore the kids altogether and enjoy the fourth quarter of his life in peace. But neither Huey, a ten-year-old leftist revolutionary, nor his eight-year-old misfit brother, Riley, are thrilled aobut he new environment. Although the boys torture each other and provoke the neighbourhood, they are sill no match for Granddad, who is eccentric even by “crazy-ass-old-black-man” standards.
Here’s a clip from some scenes from the much-anticipated season 2:
