Girlfriends (TV series)
| Television series | |
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| German title | Girlfriends |
| Original title | Girlfriends |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2000-2008 |
| length | 22 minutes |
| Episodes | 172 in 8 seasons |
| genre | Sitcom |
| idea | Mara Brock Akil |
| music | Angie Stone - Girlfriends |
| First broadcast | September 11, 2000 (USA) on UPN |
| German-language first broadcast |
September 14, 2005 on NICK Comedy |
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Girlfriends is an American sitcom that focuses on the lives of four women in Los Angeles ( California live). Originally produced for the US television network UPN , the series was taken over by the newly founded network The CW after its merger with The WB . The series has aired since September 2000; starring Tracee Ellis Ross as lawyer Joan Clayton, Jill Marie Jones as real estate agent Toni Childs, Golden Brooks as writer Maya Wilkes and Persia White as documentary filmmaker Lynn Searcy. After the eighth season, the series will be discontinued in the USA. The last episode aired in the United States on February 11, 2008.
Overview
The four friends Joan ( Tracee Ellis Ross ), Maya ( Golden Brooks ), Toni ( Jill Marie Jones ) and Lynn ( Persia White ) live and work in Los Angeles. Each of them has their own very special character, but despite all the contrasts, the four women are best friends. Together they fight their way through the ups and downs of big city life. Their mutual friend William ( Reggie Hayes ) takes on the role of "big brother", he has the shoulders on which the girls can cry when they have to. In 2004 the series, which was also broadcast in Germany , was nominated for an Emmy .
characters
Joan Carol Clayton (played by Tracee Ellis Ross ) was a junior partner at Goldberg, Swedelson, McDonalds and Lee, a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. Joan, 29 years old at the series premiere, is always looking for a husband. Joan's parents divorced when she was nine, and she moved to Fresno around the same time she met Toni Childs. The two became best friends. Joan is the unofficial “cave mother” of the group who often pays attention to the needs of her friends while she forgets about her own. She graduated from UCLA and often struggles for the recognition and respect of her peers. She is the only black female lawyer in her law firm. Joan had a chain of bad friendships: she met Marcus (2000), sex addict Sean (2001), super-young DJ Chris (2002), actor Ellis (2002-2003), and human talent agent Brock (2003). In spring 2004 she realized her feelings for William Dent, her former colleague from the firm. This mutual attraction lasted from Season Five 2004-2005 through Season Six 2005-2006, but the friendship broke off early after they were a couple. In 2004 she quit her job in the law firm and opened her own restaurant J-Spot. In 2006, the business flourished after it almost closed.
Antoinette Marie "Toni" Childs (played by Jill Marie Jones ) is Joan's best friend and was her roommate at UCLA. Toni grew up in a poor family with an alcoholic mother in Fresno. She has several siblings (three sisters and three brothers). She met Joan in elementary school and they became best friends. In 2002 she sold a home to Beyoncé for $ 4 million and used the money to start her own agency, Toni Childs Realty. Toni is much more vain than her friends and describes herself as the "sweetie" of the group. In spring 2001 Toni met two men at the same time; in the end they both found out and dropped her. In 2002 the women noticed that Toni had lied about her age since childhood; it was held in school and had to repeat the second stage. Toni's next serious relationship began in the fall of 2002 when she met cosmetic surgeon Dr. Todd Garrett meets. The two fell in love and were married in the spring of 2003. The following year they separated and Todd went to New York to give a reality show a new look. Toni soon discovered that she was pregnant with Todd's child and gave birth to Morgan, the child's name, in the 2005 season finale. Shortly after the birth, Toni notices that she no longer wants to be married to Todd and asks him for a divorce.
Maya Denise Wilkes (played by Golden Brooks ) was Joan's assistant at the law firm. She was 24 years old when the sitcom started. She was married to the airport porter Darnell and has a son named Jabari. During the first season, Maya mostly struggled with a fibrous tumor in her uterus that was eventually surgically removed. In early 2002, she met a man named Stan and began an affair with him. At the end of the 2001-2002 season, Darnell found out about their affair and they separated. They ended up getting divorced the next season. Maya started working as Williams' assistant to make more money. In the fall of 2003 Maya went back to school and took Lynn as a tenant to help pay the costs. For a while she met with Jalen, her neighbor. In March 2004 Maya decided to write a book called Oh Hell Yes that caught the attention of a New York publisher. For most of the 2004–2005 season, Maya and Darnell realized they still had feelings for each other and fled to Las Vegas for the 2005 season finale to get married.
Lynn Ann Searcy (played by Persia White ) was Joan's and Toni's roommate at UCLA and lived with Joan for eight years before the sitcom started. Lynn has no fewer than five graduate degrees. Lynn, who has a black father and a white mother, was adopted by a white family in Seattle and didn't notice her black side until college. Lynn's most obvious character trait is her strong need for sex, which brings her problems over and over again and with which she annoys her friends at times. At the end of the 2000-2001 season, Lynn fell in love with a Jamaican man named Vosco and the two moved into Maya's mother's garage together. Lynn's other main relationship was in January 2003 when she met the celibate poet Sivad. They met until September 2003. In November 2002, Lynn finally met her birth mother, Sandy. Sandy sparked Lynn's interest in filmmaking and they started a project together, but Sandy suddenly disappeared. In May 2003, Lynn travels to Virginia to accept her mother's help with a documentary on AIDS and finds out that Sandy is bipolar . In the season premiere 2004-2005, Lynn meets her biological father and befriends her half-brother. She also becomes a lead singer in a band during this season.
William Jerome Dent (played by Reggie Hayes ) is one of Joan's male friends with whom she also dated for a while. He is the cock in the girlfriends basket. He is a senior partner with Goldberg, Swedelson, McDonalds and Lee. William was married when he met Yvonne, a police officer. He is also referred to as "mother's boy". Because he thinks that Joan has married, he marries Lynn out of envy. He is a financial partner in Joan's restaurant J-Spot.
Monica Charles Brooks (played by Keesha Sharp ) is the fiancée of William Dent. His girlfriends are initially hostile towards her, later Monica is increasingly accepted.
Others
Girlfriends shares a series universe with Moesha . Resulted in 15 (Old Dog) occurs Shar Jackson in their living there role of Niecy Jackson on. The Girlfriends Spin-off The Game is also part of it. In episode 133 (The Game) , which acts as a backdoor pilot , the characters from this series are introduced.
Charisma
- United States
- UPN , from September 2000 until the station was discontinued in September 2006
- Broadcast weekly from September to May, around 22 new episodes per season
- The CW , as of September 2006
- expected takeover after UPN is discontinued
- Germany
- NICK Comedy , from September 2005 until the station was discontinued in June 2006.
- Comedy Central , January 2007 to January 2008 and April 14, 2008 to January 13, 2009.