Everybody Hates Chris
on CW
By Adam Shuler
With the TV writer’s strike at
an end, scripted programming has returned to the prime-time airwaves. And while
this means that a lot of programming with objectionable content is coming back,
it also means that the cleaner shows are returning as well. One such
consistently clean program is the CW’s Everybody Hates Chris, our
Best of the Week.
The episode airing on Easter
Sunday (March 23rd, 8:00 p.m. ET), was titled “Everybody Hates
Easter.” Chris is again trying to impress Tasha, and he sees an opportunity to
do so when she fights with her boyfriend and they break up. Tasha then asks
Chris to escort her to an Easter pageant, and he happily accepts. Meanwhile,
Chris’ mother Rochelle is caught up in her annual quest to find the perfect
Easter hat. The wrinkle this year is that Rochelle has to compete with a hat
shop owner, who challenges Rochelle’s supremacy at the church’s Easter hat show.
Chris’ siblings Tanya and Drew devise a plan to smuggle in extra eggs to an
Easter egg hunt to get a head start on winning, and father Julius pretends to
have to work an extra shift so that he can stay home during the church’s fashion
show and watch football.
Everyone’s schemes go awry when
Drew, who had planned to escort his mother at the fashion show, sprains his
ankle. Rochelle tries to find someone to take his place, but the task is easier
said than done. Eventually, Julius’s cover is blown when Tanya goes back home to
find Chris. Julius ends up escorting Rochelle, and Chris arrives in time to see
his mother win the hat competition. Despite this happy ending, each of the
family members suffers for their fibs. Tanya gets a stomachache from the candy
she won, Rochelle takes a call from Julius’s supervisor and learns that Julius
didn’t actually work, and Tasha shows a picture of herself and Chris to
Rochelle, effectively blowing his cover.
The CW’s Everybody Hates
Chris is the best example today of how scripted programming can be
entertaining without indulging in negative content or attitudes. We are glad to
once again award this series the Best of the Week.
Best TV Show
of the Week
The Parents
Television Council -
www.parentstv.org
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