Why you should take 10 minutes to stop, look and listen to 'American Koko'

They had me at "shea butter."

American Koko is satire, aimed squarely at funny bones.

How to Get Away With Murder star Viola Davis narrates and is also one of a dozen or more executive producers. That's a lot of thought going into the abcd original that's made to be streamed. Each show flows right into the next via story lines that are tight as a drum.

Episodes begin with a prologue from the narrator that apes the Law & Order lead-in. And that's not all this show owes to the police procedural. The investigative team at the heart of American Koko works out of a precinct of sorts for the Everybody's A little bit Racist agency, or E.AR. (And as is the case on the law and order procedurals, there's always one agent who cannot turn it off.)

With up-to-the-minute barbs and arrows, they are on a mission to stop racism, "one incident at a time."

Lead agent Akosua Millard -- the Koko in the title played with two parts outrage and one part rage by Diarra Kilpatrick -- is an Angry Black Woman. She keeps insisting the "angry" part is in the distant past (and it kinda is), except anyone can see that she's still very much perturbed. She identifies as "super black." Her colleagues in turn identify with various other races and ethnic groups, making themselves into a well-qualified, diverse team capable of handling any "incidents" that might come up.

Asian mother who adopts an African child? Help her out by buying the aforementioned butter. Check.

White teacher who writes a musical about Harriet Tubman but the only black student has a wee problem? Check.

'American Koko' premiered its second season on Juneteenth. Appropriate.

Even as you share a knowing laugh, you will come to realize that this is serious stuff, designed to educate, enlighten and entertain.

What helps it go down is that there's humor in the situations. And each problem is fixed in 10 minutes or less.

One can dream, right?

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