This paper examines representations of Black masculinity and emasculation on NBC’s Parenthood. It questions whether depictions of Black masculinity represented through Parenthood’s character, Alex, are empowering or stereotypical; how do they reflect, destabilize, and/or reinforce heteronormative depictions of Black community members? Two seasons were examined employing Owen’s thematic analysis. Finally, Black males are depicted as being societal failures, criminals, violent, and hypersexualized through his character. This embodiment ultimately maintains long-held images of Black men as “Toms, coons … bucks … as oversexed, aggressive, violent, animalistic, or emasculated” (Jackson R. L. II., 2006).