Yeah what the actual fuck on that - I thought this was common knowledge about that movie.  If anything this movie has it ass-backwards, since Glory was correct that black soldiers weren’t allowed anywhere near the front lines for a long time, nevermind right at the start of the war.

Also, the famous Shaw neighborhood in Washington DC, often referred to as Black Broadway because of the historical Black live theaters located there is named in Robert Gould Shaw’s honor.

I shudder to think of what other “stirring correctives” to actual history that this reviewer would like to see in film.

Robert Gould Shaw was the white colonel’s name and he actually existed, led the 54th, died with them and was buried with them.

(also, can these writers write actual funny lines for the supposedly hilarious comedian?)

Exactly. When we randomly cut to the couple discussing having children, it feels like a white-guilt apology for not including more POC in the first series. Because there’s no way even the writers find their plotline interesting. We don’t even know them. Why would we care they might break up?

At least the first episode, that had me cringing most, was written by Darren Star (1961) and Michael Patrick King (1954). and I wonder if despite the diversity, they have a larger hand in what is on screen which leads to this clunky dialogue that is literally “I’m old and white, how do I navigate this world of black…

I, too, thought the writers room MUST be full of middle-aged white folks, when, come to find out, it’s actually “diverse” in both race and gender...(my source being NPR’s “Pop Culture Happy Hour” podcast.) Making it all the more perplexing why these things are being dealt with so... clunkily.

I was watching with my wife, the first few episodes, and had to tell her how awful i found it. And then she got a nostalgia bug and decided to start watching the original show, season 1, and immediately i picked out what you were saying about Miranda. Watching the old show vs the new, it’s just so jarring. She was…