After a four year hiatus, the show came back with a different storyline and feel than the first season. The major difference particularly being that Clara was no longer involved, and in fact was turned into a deadbeat mother. The reasoning for her leave is that she got an opportunity for a "job of a lifetime" in California, that lead from the final episode of the first season. At the time of release of this season, Tracee Ellis Ross was going into it's second season as well, Black-ish is set in Sherman Oaks, California. In addition to that, the shows additional cast changed. Exchanging Carla's best friend Gabriella Melissa De Sousa and office receptionist Ms. Helen Anna Maria Horsford, for Alex's best friends Julius Tony Rock and Simone Michole Briana White. As well as Alex's position as a college professor, in the first season being a stay-at-home dad, homeschooling his daughter as he held classes online at NYU. In the second season, he teaches inside an actual classroom at a community college, sending the youngest to a private school. The twins, Keenan and Kaci, personalities swap. And the twins biological father also makes a constant effort to be a part of their lives.