Grown-ish's Black Lives Matter episode was inspired by the killings of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery

Variety

This week's "A Boy Is a Gun" and next week's "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" were written out of the fatigue the Grown-ish writers' room felt by Arbery and Floyd's deaths last year. “The last day of us outlining that episode was the day after George Floyd was murdered,” writer and co-producer Des Moran recalls to Variety. “We ended up taking two weeks off from the room because we were all emotionally at our breaking point. And when we came back, we decided we needed to keep going with the story and make it a two-part episode.”