You hate to resort to the news release, but some television shows are so inexplicable that you’ll take any clue you can get to what the creators had in mind. According to NBC’s synopsis of its new comedy “Truth Be Told,” we’re watching four “wildly outspoken” people who can talk honestly about anything, having “the kind of conversations people have with their real friends.”

Do your white real friends argue that they should be allowed to use a word offensive to their black real friends as long as they don’t pronounce the R? Didn’t think so. Does your real friend claim that the hostess in the Chinese restaurant is faking her accent and then say that she’s “Uncle Tom-yumming it”? Hope not. If he does, you should tell him that tom yum soup isn’t Chinese.