| The Hughleys pack
it up and move to the welcoming neighborhood of UPN for their
third season.
The comedy inspired by the
real life of comedian and actor D.L. Hughley gets ratcheted up
a notch.
The likable, complex
character Darryl Hughley is a successful, self-made
African-American business owner - a vending machine magnate
overseeing Hughley Vending - born and raised near working
class Compton, California. Now, he lives a decidedly
different, upwardly mobile lifestyle in a homogeneous (or
"pasty white" as he considers it) suburb of Los
Angeles, hyper-aware of the possibility that he is
"selling out" by living in this white community.
While Darryl is not convinced
buying into this swank area was the best move for his family,
his wife Yvonne and their two children, Sydney and Michael,
have acclimated just fine, finding good friends in the people
across the street, the Rogers. Darryl worries that he needs to
keep his African-American roots and teach his kids their
heritage, that his children are growing up rich and spoiled,
and that it's up to him to show them what it was like to grow
up poor.
The show and its creator have
each received People's Choice Award nominations. The NAACP has
nominated Ashley Monique Clark and Elise Neal and D.L. Hughley
(twice!) for an Image Award.
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