I've actually seen each episode of this series so far online(find them all
here). I've seen it for the same reason I also observed shows like Sex and the City and Gossip Girl-they're targeted at and designed to appeal to certain demographics of women(in this case, professional black women 30+) and can thus be useful tools with which to learn about their mindset.
-The show is quite poorly written and is quite clearly just a "fantasy" show for women to escape into.
-You'll see very attractive, successful and extravagantly rich men with options strung out on 40+ video vixens well past their prime while saying things like "there is just something about you", turning down younger and prettier girls for the irresistible pull of the single, aging black cougar. Said former vixen (I'm not talking about Stacey Dash) is also lazy and has some of the most stereotypically hoarse/confrontational attitudes I've seen in a black female character on TV.
-You'll see women dump men stating a preference not to go down on them, or other simplistic reasons. They almost always break up in a very dramatic fashion, as if the scenes were designed solely to elicit "you go girl!" reactions from women as opposed to reflecting reality. Then again, this is unsurprising.
-You'll see affluent, good looking men behaving like puppy dogs around these women, getting rejected and then asking questions like "Well, do you ever think that you'll get there and we could be together?"
Meanwhile, they settle for kisses on the cheek and do all of the girls' errands in typical chump fashion.
-The acting isn't very good.
-You'll see a constant stream of rich, tall men who line up in a veritable parade to pursue these(largely past their prime) women, and are frequently and casually blown off by them. We all know that in real life, such men are in very short supply(especially for older women like these), but in this show they just rain from the sky and cannot resist the pull of these cougars.
Bottomline: I don't have any experience with Atlanta women so I'll let IntlSwag make the conclusions. That being said, this show does seem to confirm many of the stereotypes put out there about black female audience it targets (as do most black shows on TV these days, it seems).
The black women in this show have impossibly high standards, are extremely hypergamous, and generally difficult to date, consistently emasculating the men they come across, men who are never really portrayed very well.
It is Sex and the City for black women, though not as well written or acted and with far more 1-dimensional characters.
