There was a scene on the second episode where Sherri had to take time off from her dayjob as a paralegal to audition for something. At the audition, she ran into a colleague/nemesis, another big-boned funny black actress. In their attempts to appear more successful than one another, both Sherri and the other actress character lied about having non-showbiz work waiting elsewhere and Sherri wound up grandly volunteering to let all the other actresses audition before her – since she purportedly didn’t have anywhere she had to rush back to. They had me at “dayjob.”
“Sherri” also hit me where I live with its big-tent all-inclusive pudding pop commercial social values. Sherri is a single mother with two best friends – one a wisecracking blousy blonde Jersey partygirl just wise enough to work the ditz angle without compromising 2009 feminism and the other the beautiful black preacher’s wife who may not drink or swear, but is game for clubbing with the girls.
This kind of multifaceted humanity is prevalent throughout much of the material and indicates a world view far more hip and useful today than most of the crap I learned watching all that primetime in the 80s. It suggests that there’s more to Sherri than the flat earth and big bust we’ve seen on “The View.”
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