Mke Epps and Wanda Sykes are back for The Upshaws season 3. The series continues to be popular with viewers tuning in to watch Bennie Upshaw (Epps), his wife Regina (Kim Fields) navigate raising their blended family with the ever present Lucretia (Wanda Sykes) Regina’s meddling sister all up in their business. While their problems are often serious in nature, their solutions are chalked full of laughs.
In the season 2 finale, viewers were left wondering how the patriarch would get out of his latest blunder that landed Bennie and Lucretia in jail for his bright idea of how to increase profits at their car repair business.
The Upshaws season 3 plot
If you’ll recall, by the end of season 2, Bennie and Lucretia were headed off to jail. Bennie thought he was helping out the auto shop by buying cheaper parts to fix cars. Unfortunately, the parts were cheap because they were actually stolen, which of course makes his actions criminal. We’re not sure how he’s going to get out of trouble this time, but for his sake, we hope it happens before Lucretia unleashes her full wrath on him for getting her swept up in this mess as his business partner.
Elsewhere, Regina (Fields) had finally blown her top at work and quit in the season 2 finale. While the family was seeing an increase in their household income at the time, with Bennie in jail and the business now in trouble, in the new season, she may have to think about returning to the very job she hated.
Also in season 3, the Upshaw children again have their own growing pains that they go through. Bernard (Simon) is still figuring out parenthood, Aaliyah (Spraggins) is stuck in her quest to be popular in school and Kelvin (Lyons) is having to continually adjust to being an Upshaw that has a mom other than Regina.
Rounding out the cast are: Gabrielle Dennis (A Black Lady Sketch Show), Jermelle Simon (Animal Kingdom), Page Kennedy (Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.), Diamond Lyons (5th Ward), Journey Christine (Outsiders), and Khali Spraggins (Empire).
The new episodes of The Upshaws are now available to stream on Netflix.