#BeingMaryJane Reiview: I'm Having Mixed Emotions

I actually stayed up and watched #BeingMaryJane last night.  This show pushes the envelope in so many ways, but what occurred to me was the lack luster portrayal of black motherhood.  Don't get me wrong, I will be tuned in next Tuesday.  I think the show is relevant, spunky and just good television.  But, between MJ's niece having too many babies she couldn't take care of, MJ longing for kids that she's postponing for her career and the sick mother's double failure at mommy-hood with the too-many-time baby-mama daughter and drug addict son, sorry to say I didn't see anything even morbidly similar to my life.

I know that television is supposed to be aspirational, fleeting moments of loosely based reality, but God damn when are we going to get a show that at least gets to second base on the real-life Black people scale.  Now, there were some moments I could relate to like the underachieving brother who dates bitchy white women--I know a bunch of those.  Also, the inability to find compatible and available man - I had too many duds to count before I got married.  But come on with the successful Black woman who can't find a man and takes care of her entire family stereotype.  In my opinion way too many women are falling in to this stereotype because it what's being played out in front of them as the most viable Black woman status.  I'm just sayin'. But all-in-all kudos to Gabrielle Union who gave a great performance.

Nonetheless, I will be watching next Tuesday, as previously stated.  Where there any moments of mamahood that you appreciated on last night's episode of #BeingMaryJane ?