"What you tripping for? We got no supervision for months. We finna live like white kids," says one of the teens in BET+'s Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. 

This Tyra Banks–produced remake of the 1991 cult classic of the same name offers a Black cast repositioning of the suburban coming-of-age teenage comedy that has prototypically been the domain of precocious white characters. Though director Wade Allain-Marcus (Grown-ish) dutifully attempts to keep the beats of the original narrative intact, he is also retooling parts of the film through a contemporary racial sociopolitical lens. It's an admirable attempt not to take the easy route, but the film ultimately needed to be more radically different than its predecessor.