After many years with their friendship from childhood to maturity, with comedy stories, Ruby and his best friends find out that the high school period may separate them and make problems between each other. New friends and different relationships at this age.
As all over the place as On My Block is in tone, I have to acknowledge that the 10-episode first season is reasonably carefully planned out in terms of weaving the disparate storylines toward a finale that certainly will get people talking.
One of the many remarkable things about this series is how it folds crime and the awareness of potential violence into everyday life, which is something white sitcoms never do unless it's a Very Special Episode.
When On My Block is able to navigate [a] complex range of emotions, it works. When the show doesn't, it falls flat. But there's a lot of potential here.
The cast of On My Block is uniformly great - I caught myself laughing out loud more than once - and diversity on screen is treated as so normal that it's easy to forget that it hasn't been for so long.
It's a combination that at first doesn't really seem to click, but by the end of the season, On My Block does feel like a world unto itself, a universe with its own rules and logic.