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Release year: 2019

Storyline

Follows Bow's parents, Paul and Alicia, who are forced to move from a hippie commune to the suburbs to better provide for their family after the dissolution of their cult.

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Cast

Tika Sumpter — Alicia Johnson
Mark-Paul Gosselaar — Paul Johnson
Christina Anthony — Denise
Arica Himmel — Bow Johnson

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Did you know

• Anders Holm played the role of Bow's father, Paul Johnson, in the pilot, and appeared in the early trailers and promo photos. However, Mark-Paul Gosselaar replaced Holm after the show was picked up, and Holm's scenes were re-shot for the first episode.

• The theme song, "In the Mix," was written and performed by Mariah Carey, born to an African-American father and an Irish-American mother. The showrunners planned on having Carey make a special guest appearance on an episode, but the show was canceled before the episode was even written.

• Like Dr. Rainbow Johnson's character in Black-ish (2014), Mixed-ish (2019) is loosely based on the early life of Rainbow Barris. Dr. Barris is an actual anesthesiologist who was raised in a biracial family. However, unlike Rainbow Johnson, Barris was the middle child of five, she was the first in her family to go to college, let alone earn a post-graduate degree, and she was not raised on a commune.