(The Boondocks cast)
More hard-hitting
humour from The Boondocks in its fourth season
Satirical,
controversial and fearless in the socio-political themes it tackles – that’s The Boondocks, the hit adult animated
series that returns to Sony MAX on August 29 for a fourth season of politically
incorrect comedy.
This cult American
anime-meets-manga styled sitcom, originally created by Aaron McGruder and based
on his comic strip of the same name, has taken the world by storm since it
premiered nine years ago.
The fourth season
of The Boondocks, comprising ten 30-minute
episodes arrives on South African screens hot on the heels of its United States
cable-TV broadcast, which ended in June to record ratings (even beating the NBA
playoffs).
The show follows
the adventures (and misadventures) of two black boys, the politically conscious
Huey and the rap-loving Riley Freeman. Raised on the mean streets of Chicago,
they experience a severe culture shock after moving to the leafy, peaceful and
mainly white “boondocks” to live with their irascible grandfather.
The Boondocks mines the urban-suburban class divide for
its cutting-edge comedy, savagely sending up middle-class America while exposing
home truths around stereotyping, bigotry, elitism, hypocrisy and ignorance. It is
considered black comedy at its probing, entertaining best, as borne out by its
NAACP Image Awards nomination and its Peabody Award, as well as the heaps of
critical praise that it has elicited.
San Francisco
Examiner critic Jeffrey M Anderson wrote: “Each episode is beautifully crafted,
with an eye on lush, shadowy visuals and a pulsing, jazz-like rhythm … the show
is almost consistently funny, consistently brilliant and, best of all,
compulsively watchable.”
Exclusive to Sony
MAX (DStv channel 128), the fourth season of The Boondocks runs from August 29 on Friday nights at 21h30.
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