honestly very good the first few seasons up until like season 9 ? the earlier seasons had the charm where us stayed true to its original roots as an after school special and touched on realistic and important topics in a (usually) non-preachy way while also having a mix of the popular teen dramas of

as a person who has watched the show from the very beginning i honestly feel like they’ve abandoned their original viewers to explain blackness and black issues to a white audience. originally this show felt like it was depicting real southern black experiences with humor written for black people

#whereistasha the whole cast aside from like one side character passes the paper bag test so there’s your “diverse” reboot. i did get a little more interesting to watch s2. hoping the writing gets better and we get more fully black lesbians. and where is tasha?😭 they’ve erased her from the universe