Considering the 21 minutes of material that follow it, it seems like a very out of place sequence - yet, it serves as a great primer for the story that follows, baking its point right into the episode’s premise, and then letting the episode that follows explain the problems this paranoia can cause. The opening sequence, with its black-and-white images of mid-20th century experimentation, laid over Dre’s monologue about African-American paranoia with the medical establishment, is a sobering one, a thought that Black-ish clearly doesn’t want to expand too much on, but still wants to make a point of. Hell No” uses a montage intro detailing the various crimes of the medical industry against African Americans in the 20th century as a primer for a story about Dre trying to keep his father alive. Unlike other episodes, where the show’s social perspective often comes in conflict - or simply complicates - its more family-centric stories, “Dr.
Hell No” is a fine episode of television - one of Black-ish‘s best to date, a half hour that gets its racial perspectives out of the way early, in order to pave the way for a heartwarming story about the Johnson family coming together.
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