History Series / Blindspotting

* GoodStepmother: [[spoiler: Janelle was one to Tiare, her husband's two-year-old daughter, when she was in Bali. The marriage didn't last long, but Janelle clearly loved her stepdaughter very much and speaks of her fondly in the present day.]]

* NWordPrivileges: Ashley and Miles have a serious talk with their son Sean in Season 2 about this. Even though he has black ancestry, they tell Sean not to say it until he's 14 (and then only affectionaly with other black people) as he won't understand fully until then. They explain that, due to the US' history of racism, other uses just aren't acceptable (even by Miles, who's white).

* PreviouslyOn: Miles delivers one of these at the beginning of each episode, as if he is being filled in on everything he missed over the phone.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Trish feigns attraction to men for the purposes of her job, but the only person for whom she (apparently) shows genuine attraction is her female friend Jacquie. This is [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] in the second season, when Miles and Ashley both gently tease Trish, the former encouraging her to express her feelings.

* DisappearedDad: Miles, Ashley and Janelle's dads abandoned them, while Trish's dad had no involvement beyond sperm donation, as Rainey says.

** A minor amount between Jacquie and Cuddy (the banker), though it goes nowhere.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Rainey backhands Trish near the end of episode 3, when the argument between her and Ashley nearly turns physical.

''Blindspotting'' (2021) is a continuation of [[Film/{{Blindspotting}} the film of the same name]], created by Creator/DaveedDiggs and Rafael Casal, with Casal also reprising his role of Miles.

* MixedAncestry:
** Sean, the son of Miles (who's White) and Ashley (who looks to be mixed race of Black and White descent).
** Trish, Miles's half-sister, is clearly Black on her dad's side (possibly Afro-Latina, since she refers to herself as Sean's tia).
** Janelle's mother Nancy fits as well, since Trish mentions that she has a white grandmother.
** Their status as mixed-race people is a subject for discussion in episode 6, since it makes Nancy, Earl, and Janelle wonder if the "black experience" has been different for them because of it.

* PlatonicLifePartners: Trish and Jacque. The trope even gets name-dropped.

* PutOnABus: Collin, the film's other viewpoint character, is mentioned to have moved to Montana.

** In episode 4, Janelle mentions that her brother Collin left California after breaking into a cop's house and pointing a gun at him, which was the climax of [[Film/{{Blindspotting}} the 2018 film]]. While it may have been a cathartic moment for Collin in the movie, he did commit a crime while doing so (and while on probation to boot), so his decision to leave the state makes a lot of sense.

** The series finale reveals that [[spoiler: apparently Janelle was married in Bali, and was even mother to her husband's adopted daughter. How this relationship fell apart isn't known (besides an ambiguous "he didn't want the same things I did" from Janelle), but it's implied that its failure was a big factor in her mysterious reappearance at the beginning of the series.]] It places a whole new meaning behind her implied reluctance to begin a relationship with Earl.

* GranolaGirl: Rainey, the quintessential hippie mom.

* CallBack: When Ashley meets ''N''iles Turner in prison (played by Utkarsh Ambukdar, reprising his role from the film), he asks her if her boyfriend "has a partner that looks like [[Music/BoneThugsNHarmony Krayzie Bone]] and they set a guy on fire one time", referring to the events that led to Collin's incarceration.

* TheDanza: An odd example. Earl is played by rapper Benjamin Earl Turner.

* AffectionateNickname: Ashley is often called "Ash" by her loved ones.

* JerkAss: Trish is a decidedly unpleasant person, especially to Ashley.

* OhCrap: Earl in episode five, when he is at his job interview and realizes that his ankle monitor is about to turn back on. He leaves the interview immediately and sprints home, and it's only by sheer luck that he manages to get the job anyway.

* WhamShot: When Ashley is going through a box of Miles's stuff and finds [[spoiler: an engagement ring.]]

* ShipTease: A few instances between Earl and Janelle, especially during their cook-off in episode four.

* CloudCuckoolander: Earl is eccentric, to say the least. He's particularly strange about his ankle monitor, which he keeps plugged into an extension cord at all times. Even when he goes for a job interview, he brings a backup cord in his briefcase. His parole officer puts it quite succinctly when he calls Earl a "weird motherfucker." [[spoiler: This later becomes a FunnyAneuyrismMoment, as Earl's paranoia about his monitor is actually rooted within deep-set trauma about his arrest and subsequent incarceration, and he's revealed to be ProperlyParanoid when he's rearrested in the series finale.]]

* CloudCuckoolander: Earl is eccentric, to say the least. He's particularly strange about his ankle monitor, which he keeps plugged into an extension cord at all times. Even when he goes for a job interview, he brings a backup cord in his briefcase. His parole officer puts it quite succinctly when he calls Earl a "weird motherfucker." [[spoiler: This is later revealed to be more of a "Funny Aneuyrism" Moment, as Earl's paranoia about his monitor is rooted within deep-set traumas about his arrest and subsequent incarceration, and he's revealed to be Properly Paranoid when he's rearrested in the series finale.]]

* CloudCuckoolander: Earl is eccentric, to say the least. He's particularly strange about his ankle monitor, which he keeps plugged into an extension cord at all times. Even when he goes for a job interview, he brings a backup cord in his briefcase. His parole officer puts it quite succinctly when he calls Earl a "weird motherfucker."