The only thing that didn't work for me was the in-scene music. Not much Beck at bars frequented by meth-addled whores me thinks. And Latino teenagers in Modesto would be listening to the same god-awful shite that teens in Malibu listen to i.e., some Drake-ish, Lil Wayne inflected drek.

"There are more black men in state custody than were
enslaved during Slavery."

There are more black men in state custody than were enslaved during Slavery. That's not hyperbole. It's fact. A black president means the president is black. That's it. It no more means America has addressed the racial transgressions of her past than the Nikes I wore in grade school made me run faster. The president…

You disagree with me. That's fine. That doesn't mean anything you've said is accurate or logical.

You're choosing to ignore the uncomfortable reality: American society is a racial hierarchy upon which white males have consciously set themselves at the top. It's telling that you consider a white person who wasn't born wealthy as indicative of some kind of diversity (or adversity) when the facts clearly show the…

95% of movie, television and film executives are white males.
97% of corporate CEO's are white males
85% of television writing staffs are white males

FWIW, Neal Baer came out after a 20 year career.

You can hide gay. You can't hide black.

This ain't astrophysics. They're not hiring welders to run the writer's room for Veep. They're just providing a tiny window of opportunity for people whose parents weren't college roommates with the VP of Drama Development at FX. Why is it okay to assume that any non-white person who gets a job is automatically…

Please don't be so naive. The race of the anonymous writer with the great script will probably come up when they walk in the room and the exec keeps looking behind them to see who wrote the script. Or when the exec explains to the writer of color that stories about people of color aren't "marketable". Those aren't…

It's the forced exclusion that's not really working out for anyone other than white men.

How can someone with that little self-possession be a professional actor? Like, Alex should fail. He's not 23 he's like 40. Get it together dude.

Good shit. Especially the alt dialogue scene. That said I've seen better stage combat on the monkey bars in elementary school. Reese was taking cover at one point behind a chain link fence. Like dude, they can see you. The Samaritan agents were all shooting (one handed) right next to each other's heads. Forget about…

I think EOT is an effective metaphor for Cruise's career too. No matter what, he's going to keep trying to deliver that old-school movie star ride every single time out, each time leaving it all on the field so the kids in Missoula get their $15 bucks worth.

A public event/performance where applause is typical is not the same as people of color randomly applauding two white people for basically not being racist, i.e., it doesn't happen in real life. That's the kind of thing we're taking issue with moments of narrative inauthenticity. A white person's need to feel like…

I think we're talking past one another. My point is that TGW doesn't, in fact, no show, need have a "racial component". POC aren't accessories to be used at the showrunners discretion. What is lacking is an appreciation of the basic humanity of people of color, meaning there doesn't need to be a reason for them to be…

Yes. The problem isn't that the casting notices aren't "open", it's that casting directors *choose* who to cast and their biases determine who gets seen. A producer isn't going to stand up in the middle of a casting session and say "Why are all the actors for Crime Tech #2 Korean?" But if the agent of a non-white…

"So, there's only so much TGW can do, especially when race has never been one of the key themes of the show."

Respectfully, "I think it's bad luck and just the economics of the industry." isn't an explanation. It is a cop out.

Your statement perfectly exemplifies the problem. It's a simple fix to open casting to actors of color but casting directors elect not to do that. It's a simple matter to write diverse characters but producers, writers and showrunners elect not to do that. Then at the Emmy's and Golden Globes when 99% of the people in…