Living Single - Synopsis

Synopsis

Living Single centers on six late-twenty somethings consisting of four women and two men living the single life in the heart of Brooklyn, New York.

The series focuses on two different households in one brownstone, one shared by a trio of independent women and another shared by a pair of male friends who have known each other since they spent their youth in Cleveland, Ohio. In the first apartment, Khadijah James (Queen Latifah), a hard-working editor and publisher of the fictional urban independent monthly Flavor lives with her sweet but naïve cousin Synclaire James (Kim Coles), an aspiring actress who works as Khadijah's receptionist and has an affinity for Troll dolls; and her childhood friend from East Orange, New Jersey, Regina "Régine" Hunter (Kim Fields), an image-conscious boutique buyer who is in a constant search for a well-to-do man to spend her life with. Later in the series, Régine becomes a costume assistant for the soap opera Palo Alto and leaves this apartment to move in with her fiance, Dexter Knight (Don Franklin). Maxine "Max" Shaw (Erika Alexander), a sharp-tongued attorney and Khadijah's best friend from their college days at Howard University frequently stops by to share her unique insights, keep them entertained by sharing her day, to make sure that the girls' refrigerator isn't overstocked, and to start trouble with Kyle.

Kyle Barker (T.C. Carson) lives in the second apartment with Overton Wakefield Jones (John Henton). Kyle is a handsome stockbroker whose constant verbal sparring with Max does little to mask their obvious sexual attraction while Overton is the friendly maintenance man for the owner of their (and neighboring) building who holds deep affection for Synclaire. Kyle and Max end up pursuing a sexual relationship, but when he decides to take a job in London and invites Max to join him, she turns him down. Maxine subsequently becomes distraught over her decision and after defending a man who claims to be the second coming of Jesus (Harold Perrineau), she begins to seriously look for the purpose of her life. Through a series of events, Max decides that her purpose must be to become a mother and during the insemination process she unknowingly picks Kyle's sperm specimen based on a list of qualities she would like for her child to have. Kyle returns in the series finale and the two reconcile. Overton and Synclaire also get together and their relationship culminates in marriage by the end of the fourth season. In season five, they move in together, leaving Overton and Kyle's apartment open for new character Roni DeSantos (Idalis DeLeon), a New York-area D.J., to move in to. It is eventually revealed that DeSantos had a fling with Ira Lee "Tripp" Williams III, (Mel Jackson), the new roommate of Khadijah and Régine who moves in when Synclaire's room becomes available. Tripp is a songwriter. Synclaire joins a comedy improv troupe where she gains the attention of Tony Jonas, a Warner Bros. television exec who casts her as a nun for a new comedy series he is developing.

Along with trying to make Flavor a success, Khadijah also spends time looking for Mr. Right. She eventually finds him in childhood friend Scooter (Cress Williams) with whom she leaves the brownstone for the final time in the series finale.

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