The Game

Synopsis:

Tia Mowry plays the lead role of Melanie Barnett, a first-year medical school student who has given up an offer of admission to John Hopkins Univ.'s medical school in Baltimore to follow her boyfriend Derwin (Pooch Hall), a professional football player, to San Diego, against the advice of her parents and her cousin Joan Clayton (of Girlfriends). Derwin is a first-year rookie with a fictional team called the "San Diego Sabres". As Melanie settles into her new life, she meets Tasha (Wendy Raquel Robinson), the mother of Sabres' starring quarterback Malik (Hosea Chanchez), and Kelly (Brittany Daniel), the white wife of Sabres' African-American captain Jason (Coby Bell). As she learns to balance her new roles as both med student and the partner of an NFL player, Tasha and Kelly immediately warn her to keep a close eye on her boyfriend because of the numerous "gold diggers" that approaches the professional football players. The show was created by Mara Brock Akil, who also created Girlfriends.

At first I didn't care much for this show. I thought the idea of promoting that whole baller/athelete's girlfriend and all the stereotypes that come with it would be too much. I will admit that the show has grown on me, with one exception. In my opinion, this could be a much better show if Wendy Raquel Robinson's character Tasha would tone down the ghetto a little bit. Now I understand maybe they're trying to demonstrate that her character is "new money," but man this could be a better show if they re-thought her character. She needs a storyline of her own, away from her son. Maybe her son should buy her a nearby place or something.