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There's a fair chunk of content out there these days that's thunkingly woke in a way that annoys the crap out of me - stuff that might as well end with an "and
by mst 3y ago
There's a fair chunk of content out there these days that's thunkingly woke in a way that annoys the crap out of me - stuff that might as well end with an "and the moral of the story is" segment ala moralising kids TV.
Stuff with a wider range of actual three dimensional characters that aren't all the usual Straight White Person fare is fantastic, but not everything with non-white or non-straight people is actually any good.
The example I always come back to of doing it right is Russell T. Davies' Queer As Folk, where the characters all felt -real-, I could imagine running into them on a night out down Canal Street and sharing a natter outside a club over a cigarette - and found myself rooting for them to be happy -because- they came across as real flawed people rather than Avatars of Representation.
- hef19898 3y agoOne drama series that does this very well is the Lincoln Lawyer. Everyone there is a character with personality, motivation. All of those are, at least to me, rooted in who / what they are: lawyer, criminal, LGBTQ, people of color... And nobody is without flaws. Grey's Anatomy on the other hand... well it was great early on, had some up and downs, hit a rock during amd just before Covid, then recovered is now a little bit too on the nose regarding certain issues. Yes, send a pro-Choice message. Yes, highlight the hard reality of strict anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion laws. Or racism, or the obesity pandemic. But please, don't turn it into a lecture, entertainment is not the right format for the that. A lecture is.