Review:

If you are unfamiliar with the show Sister Sister, the show is pretty much about how Tia and Tamera are twins who were separated at birth, with each being adopted by a different parent. One day, the teens have a chance encounter while shopping at a clothing store in the mall. After the families meet, Tamera’s adoptive father reluctantly allows Tia and her mother to move into his home so the girls can be together. But just because they’re twins doesn’t mean Tia and Tamera are identical in any way other than looks.Tia is intelligent and from inner-city Detroit while Tamera is the boy-crazy twin from the suburbs. This show is a prime example of how twins can still look alike, but like different things. 

Even though me and my sister weren’t separated at birth, nor are we identical, we still have our differences that make us our own person. In the show, Tia Landry is honest, responsible, mature, and a straight-A student who graduates from high school at the top of her class; she aspired to go to Harvard but was rejected and attended the University of Michigan. Mostly she and Tamera break the fourth wall to the audience about their everyday day situation. Her main boyfriend is Ray’s mechanic, Tyreke Scott, who later becomes a police escort aka campus security at the University of Michigan. Their relationship started in the fifth season, though they broke up briefly in the sixth season then reunited. Tia’s often involved in Tamera’s schemes, and Tamera sometimes has Tia pose as her. While on the other hand, Tamere Campbell is the total opposite. She is highly impulsive, less intellectual than her sister, and a big fan of Coolio (someone that is mentioned in the show). Mostly she and Tia break the fourth wall to the audience about their everyday day situation. She meets Jordan Bennett, editor of her school’s newspaper, and they start dating midway through the fifth season and their relationship grows stronger in the sixth season. Never afraid to speak her mind, she often voiced her penchant for the shoe brand that is mentioned in the show. 

Towards the end of the series, the girls get to meet their biological father Matt Sullivan,  a white famous photojournalist who never married their mother, Racelle Gavin, because they never got the chance: she was asked to paint a mural in Florida and he was assigned “the opportunity of a lifetime” in the Middle East; when he left, Racelle told him she’d join him in Tel Aviv but never mentioned her pregnancy, and after 6 months she stopped writing. When she died, Matt wasn’t allowed to see the girls because he couldn’t prove he was their father, and when he searched for them later, he never found them because they had been adopted separately.

To sum everything up, no set of twins are alike. They can be their own self, and that’s okay. 

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