Except Chris and Dave are black men, so that doesn't apply since unlike the dudes you describe, they've actually put in 20 years of work AND earned the payday.

It's not weird though. You just have the false idea that these should all be white people, instead of being open to the possibility that your cousins might not be the same race as you (if they're products of an interracial relationships).

OK… but Romeo did kill twice: Tybalt (after Tybalt murdered Mercutio) and Prince Paris (when Romeo came upon him in Juliet's tomb). It's in the play.

Except that's not what's happening. ABC signed production deals with Viola Davis and Kerry Washington. Both actresses have their own production houses. Black-ish, Dr Ken, and Cristela aren't affiliated with Shondaland, but each show had PoC showrunners/PoC leads/creators.

The TV show is based on a YA novel, Still Star-Crossed, written by Melinda Taub.

"How are these people related"? So, I'm assuming the author has no understanding of "related through marriage" or interracial marriage?

I was just thinking that. That was actually a great episode.

Iowa isn't the South. .

"There are still a hell of a lot of places where realistically a black secret agent is essentially going to be useless - Russia, Eastern Europe, much of Asia, parts of South America, hell, parts of the USA while we're at it." And yet black operatives and agents work in those areas. Funny how that works, huh?

The youngest prime minister in English History was William Pitt the Younger. In 1783, he became Prime Minister at 24. So yeah, it's perfectly believable that Ichabod Crane would be a professor.

It's not unique, tho. What would have been unique is if Katrina wasn't married to Ichabod, since the default roles for white fictional characters are usually wife, girlfriend, lover, mother. Let her be single, like she was in the original short story.

He has an ex-fiance coming up later in the season…. So much for not breaking vows.