Abbott Elementary Recap: Parental Guidance

Abbott Elementary celebrates mothers — and muvas — with a maternal-themed holiday episode that delivered some of the big laughs we’ve been missing this season. It’s an episode where the writers are clearly having fun, pulling from their own wealth of experience with their families, particularly Black family dynamics. From the infamous painting of the exhausted Black auntie on the edge of the bed in Barbara’s house (IYKYK) to her family’s insistence on laying hands on Gregory...