An airy flute with the authority of a French horn, she floats lightly upon the ground but can also plant herself squarely upon it. But if it’s Jade’s story, it’s Devine’s show.
Still, only Jade is less than thrilled with the idea.īecause of that resistance, the focus is very much on her - Jade is never offstage for long - and for much of its pilot “Family Reunion” plays like a kid-centric Disney Channel sitcom or something out of ABC’s old TGIF lineup (once home to Mowry’s “Sister, Sister”).
The events of the pilot convince Moz and Cocoa to abandon white-bread city life for country comforts, kin and “our culture.” (“Whoa, look at all the black people,” says one of the kids on a trip to church he has never seen so many in one place.) It’s a decision the parents announce before talking with their children, but this is the sort of show that will make sure to have them apologize for that. Onto this porch steps their grown son Moz (Anthony Alabi), who’s back from the West Coast, and the modern world, with his own family in tow: wife Cocoa (Tia Mowry) and four kids, of which teenage daughter Jade (Talia Jackson) is the one who is more than cute. Created by Meg DeLoatch, who also created “Eve” (starring Eve) and worked on the Netflix sitcom reboot “Fuller House,” the pilot - as of this writing, the only episode available for review - opens on a literal covered porch, that of M’Dear (Loretta Devine, lately of “The Carmichael Show”) and Grandpa McKellan (Richard Roundtree, who was Shaft). Family is the family you make here, even if they’re not actually related to you. “Family Reunion” recreates an old form, much as a modern housing development might suggest the good old days with carved newel posts and covered porches.Īn African American family abandons big-city Seattle for down-home Columbus, Ga., and the ample bosom of its kin. And though the streaming service works in mysterious ways (literally - Netflix does not share data, even with the people who make its shows), the point does seem to be to reach back to a lighter, pre-cynical age of comedy. It’s filmed, multicamera style, before a live audience, as was the network’s Latinx reboot of “One Day at a Time” (canceled, and just picked up for a fourth season by the CBS-owned Pop).
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Cocoa was a softer parent in the beginning of the series, but she starting making her kids more disciplined as the series went on.Netflix is looking backward with a new sitcom, “Family Reunion,” which debuts Wednesday. She often wears T-shirts during the show as well.Ĭocoa is an amazing mother to all of her kids, despite M'Dear's bad assumptions about her parenting. Cocoa is often seen wearing stylish clothes and dresses. It is unknown if her hair is a wig or not.
Currently, Cocoa has straight, silky, long black hair to goes own to her shoulders.
She currently owns her own business entitled C By Cocoa, and sells her own handmade jewelry to her customers.Ĭocoa's hair has changed constantly throughout the series, with her trying new hairstyles for herself or even making it a gag. Cocoa lives with her mother-in-law, M'Dear, and her moving out has been constantly teased throughout the show, She grew up in the city with her parents as an only child.Ĭocoa is the wife of Moz McKellan, mother of Jade, Shaka, Mazzi, Ami, and she's expecting a baby in Part Five. Her parents are Mother Daphne and an unknown father. Cocoa McKellan was born in between the years of 1970-1980, as her birth year is not mentioned in the series.
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