The episodes surrounding the Marcus Jennings shooting are titled, “A Boy Is a Gun” and “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See,” both references to real-life shootings by police. And although it can be difficult to watch stories like this on television, it’s definitely important.
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"It's been over a year since everything started, and I've heard some people being like, 'I'm tired of seeing it on television, I just want to escape,’” Francia Raisa, who plays Ana Torres shared. “And I'm like, 'No, but this is real life.' I think the way that the writers did it for our show, in particular, is a way for people to escape, but also hear truth, which is through comedy.”
We have seen similar storylines in shows like All American and 9-1-1, but Grown-ish hopes that seeing it through the eyes of Black millennials, college students just trying to find their way in the world, will be a whole new lens for us to experience the movement to reform the police and bring justice to the many Black lives that have been lost.
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