![]() Only problem is that everyone at home is getting sick, so his goal is to avoid the germs. In the reviewed half-hour (the second of the two-episode bow), he’s planning to go to Las Vegas for the weekend with a group of friends. Resentful that he and his wife, Wanda (Kellita Smith), have been forced into this unfamiliar role, Mac has become best friends with his acrimony. Older sister Vanessa (Camille Winbush) hates just about everything and begrudges her mom’s absence middle child Jordan (Jeremy Suarez) is a nerdy asthmatic and Bryana (Dee Dee Davis) always asks “Why?” ![]() Mac plays a semiversion of himself, a wealthy entertainer who takes custody of his drug-addicted sister’s three tykes (right away - a different starting point). But who cares about “borrowing” when the writing is this good? Unafraid to offer up the honest point of view that some people just don’t like first-graders or preteens, scribes stay away from “Yes, Dear” lessons learned while creating many hysterically candid and dysfunctional moments. ![]() The style is familiar talking to the camera (a la “Titus”), Mac breaks the fourth wall when he’s explaining his decisions or whining about his lack of privacy, and like “Malcolm in the Middle” the slightly offbeat characters play to a nonaudience (there’s no laugh track).
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