Welcome to ReLiving Single—the official, unofficial rewatch podcast for the iconic sitcom that changed the game. In our first episode, real-life besties Erika Alexander and Kim Coles revisit the Living Single pilot, “Judging by the Cover,” where Regine’s new man comes with one big red flag: a whole wife. They dive into the episode’s drama, the show's unforgettable characters, and why Living Single and other Black- led shows dominated the 90s. Got a burning question for Erika or Kim about Living Single? True Blue Fans, send it our way at [email protected]. Your note just might make it into the show. Follow us on Instagram and YouTube to stay in the mix. Stream Living Single on Hulu, or purchase episodes on Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video and/or Fandango. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the chemistry between Erika and Kim?
Hey, Kim. You know, what is chemistry? You know, chemistry is that sort of je ne sais quoi. You can't quite put your finger on it, but you know it when you feel it, right?
Yeah, and if you feel it, then the audience can see it.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, that kind of thing.
And I really, truly believe that we had it at Living Single from episode one, moment one, like right away. That's exactly why they greenlit the show.
I mean, our chemistry is part of the legion.
It is. Do you know that they still do chemistry reads on auditions? You want to explain to the people what a chemistry read is?
Well, okay. So a chemistry read is where you go in and you see if you vibe with the other actor and they want to bring you in to make sure that you have, you know, some kind of communication. Right. That je ne sais quoi you're talking about. So I think maybe we should do one here. Why would we need one? It's clear that we have chemistry. Well, I don't know. There's a lot of things that change.
You know, there's a lot of water on the bridge. You know, years have gone by. We've had COVID. What does COVID have to do with it? I just mean that you could have changed. You know what I'm saying? I could have changed too. So I say let's test it. So we're going to go on this new reliving single journey. We need to make sure that we have now what we had then.
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Chapter 3: What is a rewatch podcast and how did Erika and Kim experience Living Single?
Oh, they do.
That would scare me.
Because I am a person who lives from the space of childlike wonder, which is why I keep coming to, there are people who have said to me, oh my God, you're just like Sinclair. And I go, I hope that's a good thing. Because I know that there are people who think that she's dumb. It is a good thing. Just like they think that you were whatever you were. And you're richer and deeper than that.
But the qualities that I am installed in Sinclair are... foundational to me. So if you say that I'm just like Sinclair, it's a compliment.
And there we are now. We've all been introduced inside of this show, inside of the first 15 minutes. And that sets the stage, that chemistry, and the hopes in sort of just like throwing some salt over your shoulder and saying, let's see, let's go on this journey with these six characters, Yvette Lee Bowser and her writing crew in tow, and a supportive system. Mm-hmm. And that's the good news.
And we're playing it all on the Family Matters set, which is frigging deep.
People tell me, did you know that was Family Matters? I wasn't thinking about it. I was just like, is this where the sofa is? Is that where the door is? Great, let me just do it. It's not until later that we look back and we go, wow, we were using someone else's set until the show got picked up and we got our family.
Yeah, and normally they might have reshot the thing because a pilot is a demo. It is a test. But they did so well with the test that, bam, we got the show. Yeah. We kept that as our pilot number one, episode one.
It's all on fire. And it felt good right away. I felt it. It did. We can brag now. We can. We didn't know then. I knew in my soul. You knew? Oh, I knew. Oh, I knew. Because as I've talked about before, I had come off of another show that did not have this chemistry. So if I got to a place where I felt, oh, collaboration, oh, these people all seem to really like each other.
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Chapter 4: Who are the main characters in Living Single and their dynamics?
And they were all men. And they laughed and they were delighted. But it was instant. It wasn't like, are you? It was like, we know you. You never told me this story.
I love it.
Absolutely. You know, we would be driving in our cars and then people would speed up and you'd see like white families like nearly running off the road.
People say that I'm Sinclair. They say I'm you. And you got blonde hair and blue eyes and you're me. And so it's important that we were, we belong to our community at large, our, you know, the black community and we belong to everyone who. Yes.
We were embraced by them because that's what comedy does. It's the tie that binds. It's the hip hop generation. One of the most consequential and phenomenal music eras was happening. Once again, fueled by black people with our culture. We've done this over and over again in American history, to be clear.
The one thing about being enslaved is that they might have taken many of our freedoms, but they couldn't take our minds. They couldn't take our imagination. The RZA told me, he was like, Erica, the biggest nation is the imagination. And he's right.
And if you look at jazz, if you look at rock and roll, ragtime, punk rock, every genre, country, that's Black people showing that you may not have given us as much access, but you cannot ever take away the access we have.
And the access that's here.
But to have the distribution system suddenly say we're going to put on shows with black cast, that's huge.
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