Honey Don't Bother Me 'The Game' Is On

"Honey don't bother me 'the game' is on", a popular phrase often uttered by men across the nation, but about five years ago this phrase took on a whole new meaning. The premier of yet another African American based comedy on CW formerly UPN, may not exactly have been what you had in mind when this you first glanced at the title of this blog. Never the less it is exactly what everyone has been buzzing about. With The Game's most recent season four premier, after a two year hiatus and a network move, had been well overdue in the minds of the shows fans. So you can imagine the excitement when they heard that B.E.T. would be taking on the production of this well loved and ill-canceled show, and that it would be premiering on January 11th, 2011.

So every Tuesday night at 10:00pm you can catch the show which is a comedy-drama with a storyline following Melanie Barnett now Davis (Tia Mowry Hardrict), Derwin Davis (Pooch Hall), Jason Pitts(Coby Bell), Kelly Pitts (Brittany Daniel), Malik Wright (Hosae Chanchez) and the famous Latasha 'Tasha' Mack (Wendy Raquel Robinson.) Each character lends there own flavor of drama to the ru of the show which makes it for a pretty interesting watch week to week. Now even though this show is about Famous foot ball athletes of the fictional NFL team the San Diego sabers with all the plot twists and extreme focus on the athletes female counterparts; mothers, wives, and girlfriends, and it being a spin off of the infamous "black sex and the city" Girlfriends, you wouldn't think that this show would be such a rave amongst men. Never the less, it has become just that.

At first I was surprised even a little disturbed at the fact that so many of my guy friends even knew what this show was, let alone the fact that they seemed to watch it religiously. Now I guess the correlation between the male casts drama and their own lives could pull them into the storyline but I feel that the glamorous life styles of these athletes is a far cry from the everyday of the average man. Maybe it's a way for some of them to live through the male cast members in some sort of fantasy being played out for them on the silver screen. But these aren't the metro-sexual high maintenance pretty boys you would expect to watch this show. I'm talking about highly masculine manly men who are immersing themselves in this melodramatic cinema. Am I wrong for being weird-ed out by this occurrence? or even feeling as if something I held to be a girl thang, is being invaded by the boys? I'm not sure but what ever it is it's got these men hooked and coming back for more week after week and I'm finding it more common that my guy friends are ditching me to watch "The Game."