That's nicely put. I would have asked "Why didn't you tell Effie and Jason to act like grown ass adults instead of acting like preschoolers? Drama?"

that's Jason for ya, too busy worrying about finding the perfect house to have time to worry about editors.

What you noticed is the people putting together this reality show choose to follow Effie around and ask her what she thinks after every run-in with Jason. It's called editing, just like they choose to show Effie complaining that there's only one person of color on the set (something HBO asked her to be mindful of)…

If Effie's correct that the original cast only included one black servant and the cut they edited in showed a handful of black actors it looks like Effie got him an upgrade from servant to wedding guest, as well as jobs for several other actors of color.

At least they took the time to do that.

Yes, the original script was bad. kKnda makes you wonder why they choose it in the first place.
And two, if there's extra money in the budget it's because Effie set it aside for contingencies, like a good planner would. Doesn't she get credit for that?

I'd say dialogue like "I'm gonna make you lick each other's assholes" is what's wrong with filmmaking, not the lack of black servants.

I'm sure the scripts for most shows don't say "room full of white people" but somehow it always ends up that way. Read below where commentators are explaining how there's no black people in New England. Agree that Effie should have hired non-white casting directors and that would have solved some of her issues. …

I think the whole thing is made up drama. They picked the most offensive script they could find (white guy accidentally marries a black hooker because nothing says hee-larious like selling your body to make the rent payment) and they already knew they were going to choose a director so white he's practically…

I can't believe he would have gotten "a word or two". Don't they have to pay extra for speaking roles?

or edited to look that way. Did Effie edit the show, too?

A script Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and HBO choose to base the original premise of this show on. Before choosing one that exists in a world where nobody had a black roommate in college, a black friend from private school, or knows a black person from work.
If Affleck, Dammon and HOB aren't "Hollywood" I don't know…

Unfortunately this show could be about any work place anywhere. Some new kid shows up and he knows everything about everything. Old kid tell him things he doesn't want to hear and he goes crying to higher ups. Then old kid, who's been given a budget, is told the budget doesn't matter as long as new kid's happy. New…

I don't know how liberal/PC Hollywood is when it comes to anything other than writing a check. Wasn't the only black person in the first script a prostitute and the only black person in the second script was a servant. How's that liberal?

Why couldn't they recast him as a wedding guest? Apparently there were black people at the party.

Yes, there were blacks in New England back in the day. Even fairly well off blacks, back in the day. Google "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" - that has upper-middle class black people in it. Strange but true.

(Believe me, if there was any of that, GP would show it).

You're right, kinda got carried away there. I don't think Jason's a white supremacist type guy, just the kind of guy who wouldn't notice the cast and crew is all white - it wouldn't even register as an issue. In that case does it matter if he's racist or not? It's still all white.

No, I'm suggesting they have hours of tape and they edit it down to 30 minutes of "Hatin' on Effie" and "Everybody Loves Jason". If they wanted to tell a different story they'd do a different edit but Jason's the innocent victim and Effie's the "Hot Ghetto Mess". They choose the title, too.

that's the point, he wanted to brag about his mother being a Civil Rights activist (as if he was somehow responsible for that) without acknowledging that great grandpappy's slave owning gave his mom the resources to be an activist. Contrasting the two would have been honest (and interesting).