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The Upshaws

Created by Wanda Sykes, Regina Y. Hicks
Netflix2021 47 pages

Bennie Upshaw, the head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis, is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to step up and care for his family and tolerate his sardonic sister-in-law, all without a blueprint for success.

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