BET’s “Buppies:” The Urban “Sex & The City”?
Ever since the end of our favorite shows like Girlfriends and Sex and The City, there has been a serious gap in our weekly TV line up. Enter “Buppies,” a new original BET web series about a group of Black Urban Princesses; wealthy successful women navigating their way through the glamorous Hollywood life. The show stars Tatyana Ali, who plays Quinci, an entertainment publicist. According to BET.com:
After losing her father and being dumped by her fiancé, Quinci, the socialite daughter of a Hollywood celebrity, realizes that her friends are her only real family left. This provocative and ironic series chronicles the relationship dramas of Quinci’s dysfunctional but virtually inseparable friends as they navigate the perks and pratfalls faced by LA’s young black power elite.
The webisodes are available every Tuesday at 8, on BET.com.
Check out the gallery below to learn more about the cast of Buppies:
Here is the first webisode:
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CarmenTX83
I guess that’s what we get for being crabs in a barrel and judging so quickly. This show is pure fab. I’ve seen every episode and it keeps getting better. Here’s a critic/s take that sums up exactly how I feel.
http://daytimeconfidential.com/2009/12/22/why-buppies-is-by-far-the-best-of-the-web-soaps-currently-airing-new-episodes#comments
Its the best web series out there and the most original black thing outside of Precious I’ve seen in years. I hope they wise up and put it on TV.
OGslim30
@No1PINKPRINCESS my thoughts exactly. BET is destroying our youth and our community. It’s also sad that so many in our community don’t even know that BET isn’t black owned. Viacom owns BET, the same corporation that owns Paramount Pictures, MTV, and VH1.
wincie
i’m not interested. first the dude dating one of the girl’s is gay so thats his secret. its nothing new
chictatious1
i want to check it out before i judge it, but there is no correlation with sex in the city. the name of the show is terrible and not sure what they were thinking???
missstrings43
Well, I hope that the show sticks around for a while. We need to keep our black actors and actresses working. It’s about time. If we don not keep them working, my tv is going off and black DVD’s will be on my player all day. Nothing against the white sitcoms but it is about TIME!
( and to be honest, “I DON”T GIVE A DA**ED HOW BAD THE ACTING IS!”)………….. It’s a BLACK NETWORK!
DaintyJen
and here we go…..
CarmenTX83
Hm. I wouldn’t call this the urban SATC – why even go there?? – but I have to disagree with most of the posters here. I just watched the clip and think it’s extremely cute. And very well done in fact. The show is obviously satire which many black people might not be used to looking at, especially if all you watch is BET and Tyler Perry all day. I lived in LA for a summer during college (hated it) so I get a lot of the insider comedy in here and think its really well done. Subtle and tongue in cheek. If anything the show seems to be spoofinng the morons in that world which is nice to see. It’s not Sex and the City at all from what I can tell in this episode which I don’t think it has to be and I don’t know why it’d be described like that. It reminds me more of “Always Sunny in Philadelphia” or something like that. And regarding the laywer/rapper bit, I’m in b-school right now with plenty of black men who have this weird ghetto fantasy about being rappers. It’s a sad male compensation thing. That cracked me up the most actually because I know those guys. well educated, intelligent, but insecure wannabes. For those who don’t know, that is unfortunately very real. I think there’s obviously going to be a class divide with a show like this. If you’ve never known a buppy you wouldn’t get it (and it’s Buppies not B.A.P.S – Buppies is a term for black urban professionals). This whole convo actually brings back memories because I remember the same crabs in a barrel were calling Girlfriends (one of my all time faves after Different World) ghetto when it first came out just because they saw a cast of black women on screen and it wasn’t just like Sex and the City. It had a style of its own and thats what made is an authentic show I think. Its sad a show like this has to even cater to the BET audience and maybe thats the real problem. We really need more places for black entertainment. Sometimes its seems like as a people our self esteems is so low that we see other black people on screen and immediately think it’s “less than” just because of that. Same thing is happening with Precious which is so beautiful. It’s truly a work of art. But some black people think its setting us back and are calling it ghetto. It’s funny because those same people will sit up in EVERY Tyler Perry film so it’s clear that they’re not even in on the joke that they’re actually the ghetto ones. Who knows, this show could be a step in the right direction for a network like BET that fails constantly and certainly lost the Buppy demographic long ago. Or maybe it needs to be somewhere else where the viewership is more open minded. Right now it looks like its not on TV (?) so maybe it can be made into a tv show somewhere else. I agree that this episode isn’t earth-shattering and I hate that its so short (who wants to wait a week for 6 minutes) but I giggled a few times and thought it was clever in quite a few places. I definitely wouldn’t call it BAD however. That’s extreme.
thicksweetnlovely
ok # 1 lawyer turned rapper Ghetto
#2 havin a break down cuz some dude broke up with u … terrible acting on that part (Sorry Taty)
#3 this is NOTHING like sex in the city .. those women were 4 independent living on there own chasing there dream of success and love … idk what these women lookin for and its only 3 of them
#4 idk what the deal is with the priscilla chick so bougie and fake and Kourtney is too damn Ghetto Quici would be friend with both of them but they wouldnt be friends with each other Priscillas man is on the DL uber Gay…So no its more like lets make black ppl look more ignorant
the name of the show stands for Black American Princesses… that is B.A.Ps stupid ugh this bother me so much come on black when we move forward its always something that will set us back a few more years.. they woulda done better finding a writer and continuing the Game atleast that was original ..Sh!t
sylkiifeather
wow lmao!
DAFINESTGRL
THIS IS ASHAME! I WILL NOT WATCH THIS CRAP!…ANYMORE. BET NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN OR SOMETHING I AM REALLY SICK OF THEM!!!! THIS MESS IS SO RIDICULOUS. I’M NOT EVEN GOIN TO GO INTO IT AND PICK IT APART……ALL I COULD DO IS SMH!
No1PINKPRINCESS
LOL O.K. I left my last comment before I actually watched the video and now that I have…geeezz Lo-friggin-uise. This didn’t deserve a comment. Ignorance at it’s best. I want my 3 minutes back because that’s all I could stand. If anything this is the BLACK version of corny.
No1PINKPRINCESS
UUUUGGGGGHHHH! I hate when black people aren’t original!!!!!!!!!! The BLACK version of this and the URBAN version of that, like you’re adding a special spice to it or something lol. Stop riding the ideas of white people and putting your own so-called “spin” on it. Sex and the City had great writers and an awesome cast which is why it appealed to sooo many different races around the globe. It was a classic but this crap will TANK. Next they’ll have the URBAN versions of True Blood and Desperate Housewives. For shame BET…for shame.
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HA HAHA HA EWWW @ PiiC #5…BET ALWAYSz TRY TO iiMiiTATE OTHA TV SHOWSz, THATSz WHY ii DONT EVEN WATCH BET NO MORE…TO ME iiTSz SOO PLAYED OUT, THEY NEED TA COME OUT WiiTH THEiiR OWN SHOWSz AND STOP TRYNA COPY OFF MTV AND STUFF…WHAT HAPPEND TO ORiiGiiNALiiTY….
browneyez120
Tmac… I KNOW RITE LMAOFF!!!!!!!!
TMAC_35000
Shaka, a high-powered attorney with hopes of making it in the rap game…LOL!
najaca
The only reason I wouldn’t watch it is that they based it in LA. I would have preferred it to be done in NY, because only then would it be relatable. I hate black shows based in LA…always phony. This show needs a lot of work with the writing and it needs polishing. The bad acting and direction is making me shake my head. These people wouldnt be friends in real life.
lotus-moon
Dear Dumb@$$$ sex in the CITY has the word CITY in the title. Thus eliminating the word URBAN from your comparrison. Would your rascist @$$ now like to go back and replace it with the word BLACK? WTF!?!!
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jazzpast
not worth a sec
pebbs517
Definitely the BLACK Sex & the City! I’m gonna check it out!