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Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!

Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! is an American multi-camera sitcom starring Jamie Foxx as Brian Dixon, a bachelor cosmetics-company owner who becomes a full-time father to his teenage daughter Sasha. It was created by Jamie Foxx and Jim Patterson for Netflix, inspired by Foxx's real-life relationship with his daughter Corinne Foxx, who served as an executive producer.¹^•² The eight-episode first season was released on April 14, 2021, and Netflix canceled the series two months later.³^•⁴

Key fact	Detail
Format	Multi-camera family sitcom, average runtime 26 minutes, TV-14 rating²^•³
Premiere	Full eight-episode season released April 14, 2021 on Netflix³
Premise	Bachelor Brian Dixon unexpectedly becomes a full-time father to his teenage daughter Sasha³
Inspiration	Foxx's real-life relationship with daughter Corinne Foxx, who pitched the show to Netflix and executive produced¹^•⁵
Main cast	Jamie Foxx (Brian), Kyla-Drew (Sasha), David Alan Grier (Pops), Porscha Coleman (Chelsea), Jonathan Kite (Johnny), Heather Hemmens (Stacy)²
Reception	25% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer (12 reviews) and 47% on the audience Popcornmeter; Metacritic Metascore 49³^•⁶
Fate	Cancelled by Netflix after one season, reported June 19, 2021⁴

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Premise and characters

Brian Dixon (Jamie Foxx) is a successful business owner and bachelor who runs the cosmetics company his late mother built, and who suddenly becomes a full-time father when his 15-year-old daughter Sasha (Kyla-Drew) moves in with him in Atlanta. Sasha is grieving her mother's recent death and adjusting to a new life while dealing with her father's cringe-inducing behavior. Brian's father Pops (David Alan Grier) and sister Chelsea (Porscha Coleman) live in the family home and help him figure out fatherhood on the fly.¹^•⁷^•⁸

The supporting cast includes Jonathan Kite as Brian's police officer friend Johnny Williams and Heather Hemmens as Stacy Collins.² Foxx also played several eccentric guest characters across the season, including the preacher Reverend Sweet Tee.⁹^•⁸

Origin and production

The show grew out of interviews Corinne Foxx gave with her father. The two had co-hosted the game show Beat Shazam and often told embarrassing family stories together, and after noticing that audiences found the stories funny, they developed a fictional family based on their own; Corinne Foxx described the pitch to Netflix as "pitching my diary."⁵ She cast Kyla-Drew, who was actually 15 at the time, rather than an adult playing a teenager, so the character could reflect the experience of being 15 in the present.⁵

The series reunited Foxx with showrunner Bentley Kyle Evans, who had worked on The Jamie Foxx Show (1996 to 2001), and was directed by Ken Whittingham (black-ish).¹ Jim Patterson was originally set as showrunner but stepped down before production began and was replaced by Evans.¹⁰ Production was disrupted by the pandemic: the first episode was shot on March 13, 2020, two days before the industry shut down, and filming then paused for six months.⁵

Netflix released the entire first season on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at 3:01 a.m. ET.⁸ The episodes carry hashtag titles, from "#blackpeopledontgototherapy" (episode 1) to "#maybeitsbaybelline" (episode 8), and each was classified by the BBFC for language and drug misuse.¹¹

Reception

Critical response was largely negative. On Rotten Tomatoes the season holds a 25% Tomatometer from 12 reviews and a 47% Popcornmeter from more than 50 audience ratings; the site's critics consensus reads, "Jamie Foxx is funny - sadly, Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! is not."³^•¹² Metacritic assigned a Metascore of 49, labeled mixed or average, based on 10 critic reviews.⁶

Reviewers repeatedly compared the show to 1990s network sitcoms. Common Sense Media called it a throwback that "seems imported from another era," while crediting the cast's chemistry and David Alan Grier's performance as the weed-smoking grandfather.⁷ The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the series "never doesn't feel like The Jamie Foxx Show 2," and Variety noted its adherence to multi-camera basics with a laugh track underlining every joke.⁶ NME called it "a mortifying misfire," criticizing the tonal mix of broad pre-teen sitcom gags with mature language and the use of Foxx's sketch-style guest characters.⁹ Some reviews were warmer: the San Francisco Chronicle scored it 75, praising its easy way with topicality, and Primetimer, also at 75, admired its incorporation of racial issues on viewers' minds in 2021.⁶

Cancellation

On June 19, 2021, Netflix canceled the series after one season, about two months after the season's debut.⁴ Netflix and Foxx's creative partnership continued with the films They Cloned Tyrone and Day Shift.⁴

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026