THE BOONDOCKS SEASON 4:
NOT A VERY GANGSTA WAY TO END A
GREAT SERIES, BUT IT HAS PLENTY OF FUNNY MOMENTS TO BACK IT UP!
By Nico Beland
Show Review: *** out of 4
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(From
top to bottom) Robert “Jebidiah” Freeman, Huey and Riley Freeman, and Uncle
Ruckus, No Relation in the fourth and final season of The Boondocks
So it has come to this, the fourth
and final season of the critically praised animated series on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, The Boondocks.
Based on the popular comic strip by Aaron McGruder about two young
African-American boys, Huey and Riley Freeman (both voiced by Regina King),
living in a white suburbia with their grandfather, Robert “Jebidiah” Freeman,
better known as Granddad (voiced by John Witherspoon-Soul Plane, Friday After Next).
Granddad ends up going bankrupt and
owes billions of dollars in debt, in comes Eddie Wuncler Jr. (voiced by Sam
McMurray) the son of Mr. Ed Wuncler (voiced by Ed Asner), who makes a deal with
Granddad to get his money back in a month. He then starts getting jobs to pay
Wuncler back such as working at a car wash owned by self-hating black man with
Revitiligo, Uncle Ruckus, No Relation (voiced by Gary Anthony Williams-Soul Plane), escorting women for crazy
old bitches, working in a slavery themed amusement park called Freedomland, and
facing off once again with his arch nemesis, Colonel H. Stinkmeaner (voiced by
Cedric Yarbrough) who is back with a vengeance…again.
Other situations in this season
involve District Attorney and friend of the Freeman family, Tom Dubois (voiced
by Cedric Yarbrough) standing tall against a rapper named Pretty Boy Flizzy
(voiced by Michael B. Jordan-Chronicle)
who is looking for “White Wife Booty” and plans to do Tom’s wife, Sarah Dubois
(voiced by Jill Talley), Granddad, Huey, and Riley unintentionally selling
themselves into slavery, making exploding hair care products in an homage to
the hit series, Breaking Bad, Granddad
dating a lost Kardashian sister with a huge ass (voiced by Grey DeLisle), and
the true story of Robert Freeman as he fights for his rights during the Civil
Rights Movement.
Overall, I wouldn’t say season 4 is
as clever or outrageously funny as the previous three seasons, especially since
this season was made without Aaron McGruder’s involvement, which is quite sad.
But for what it is this season isn’t bad, in fact when the episodes are funny,
they’re really funny.
Good
Times, Freedomland, and Breaking Granddad are three of my new
favorite episodes of the series and are probably my favorite episodes in this
season, along with the final Stinkmeaner episode, Stinkmeaner: Begun The Clone War Has. But aside from these
episodes, the rest are pretty funny too like Pretty Boy Flizzy, Granddad
Dates a Kardashian, and I Dream of
Siri, which reminds me a lot of last year’s Spike Jonze movie, Her, except more psychotic.
Unfortunately my main problem with
this season was the last episode, it was a decent episode overall, but it was
an underwhelming way to wrap the series up. The season finales from the
previous seasons were funny, often epic, and rather emotional at times, The Passion of Reverend Ruckus (from
season 1), The Story of Gangstalicious
Part 2 (from season 2), and It’s
Goin’ Down (from season 3) were all solid finales to those seasons,
unfortunately this finale lacked the emotional drama, and intense dilemmas of
the previous episodes.
Aside from a disappointing finale
and no involvement of McGruder, season 4 certainly isn’t terrible, it has
plenty of funny and smart episodes and most of the characters we all know and
love are back, and there’s more satire of what’s going on in the world.
I heard about Aaron McGruder’s new
series coming to Adult Swim, Black Jesus and honestly I’m curious to
see how it turns out. Hopefully I’ll love it just as much as I did with The Boondocks.
The
Boondocks: Complete Fourth Season DVD is out today, so if you love the show
(like me), I’d suggest grabbing a copy, enjoy all the episodes uncensored for
generations to come, and "Do the Homie".
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