You get the feeling that a family has gotten accustomed to living in Dad's science project.
Other homes include an open-designed home in India that makes the most of handmade materials, and a Chicago artist's home that makes an emphatic statement about bringing art and culture to an urban neighborhood without amenities like markets or theaters.
Also on Apple TV+, the half-hour cartoon "Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth," follows a young couple as they explain our place in the universe to their newborn baby. "Here" features the voices of Meryl Streep, Chris O'Dowd, Jacob Tremblay and Ruth Negga.
-- The new Netflix series "#blackAF" continues the theme of series "black-ish," "mixed-ish" and "grown-ish," created by producer Kenya Barris. That's because it stars and is co-created by Kenya Barris, who frequently references his other works and the ridiculous amounts of money they have brought his way.
Framed as a college application project created by his high school-aged daughter, "#blackAF" allows Barris to theorize on the ways he remains oppressed as a black man. His frequent tirades earn eyerolls from his wife (co-creator Rashida Jones) and daughters, but nonetheless, he persists.
When an underpaid intern comes in the room dressed like a slob, Barris asserts that white privilege allows a white person to dress casually, while a black man is "genetically" inclined to overcompensate with fancy wear for reasons dating back to slavery. In Barris' view, his ridiculously expensive clothes and cars are symbols of his continued oppression.
For all of the emphasis on blackness, Barris often sounds like Alvy Singer, Woody Allen's TV-writer/producer character in "Annie Hall," who annoys his friends with a super-sensitivity to anti-Semitism. In "Annie Hall," such scenes quickly gave way to funnier concerns. Here, they never end.
TONIGHT'S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
-- On two episodes of "The Blacklist" (NBC, TV-14): a case divides Liz and Red (8 p.m.); a figure returns from the dead (9 p.m., r).
-- "Somewhere South" (9 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings) explores the varieties of ways to make a relish called chow chow.
SERIES NOTES
Memories, dreams and reflections on "MacGyver" (8 p.m., CBS, TV-14) ... "WWE Friday Night SmackDown" (8 p.m., Fox, TV-PG) ... Kicking the tires on a new deep fryer on "Shark Tank" (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).
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