black-ish
Pilot
Season 1, Episode 1 · Aired 2014-09-24
Synopsis
In "Pilot," Dre, an advertising exec, is happily anticipating a promotion at work, which would make him the firm's first African American senior vice president. Rainbow, an anesthesiologist, is looking forward to Dre's raise. Meanwhile, Andre Jr. makes an announcement -- he's converting to Judaism so he can have a Bar Mitzvah, like all his friends.
In the series
This episode is part of black-ish (2014–2022) on ABC.
Upper-middle-class Black family sitcom that smuggled essays into multi-cam comfort.
Key cast
- Anthony Anderson as Dre Johnson
- Tracee Ellis Ross as Rainbow Johnson
- Yara Shahidi as Zoey Johnson
- Marcus Scribner as Andre Jr.
- Miles Brown as Jack Johnson
- Marsai Martin as Diane Johnson