“It’s impossible to argue with de Armas’ thought process; the Internet is forever and some horny freaks are sure to take pleasure in the depiction of a beautiful actress’ exploitation”

This is always an extremely tacky take from a person who writes entertainment ‘news’ for a living.

“Or would you be accusing me of racism no matter what?”

How brave you are to parrot a bunch of random buzzwords and broad, unfalsifiable positions.

Super nova take: Season 6 of Community was actually good

“Especially since this particular movie addresses and acknowledges its problematic history way better than 300, The Patriot, etc, does.”

I want to congratulate all the AV Club readers who are defending the whitewashing of slavers and slavery.  Kudos!

“whose impact is still felt today” - wow, I hope you didn’t spend too much money renting that forklift to move your goalposts that far in the span of two posts.

People here claiming that ‘historical movies have always been inaccurate’ are missing the point. It’s not the presence of inaccuracies, its what those inaccuracies mean and why they exist in this particular movie.

The events the in The Crown start in 1947.  It should have depicted slave trading, more than a century after England outlawed it?

Are you seeing a lot of recent films about the American Founding Fathers that I’m just missing? We had John Adams on HBO, but that was (a) 14 years ago; and (b) about one of the most anti-slavery Founding Fathers.

Untrue.

Many said it was racist, problematic, inaccurate, insulting, fascist, ableist to name a few “boos”. And also there was a call for boycott.

In total fairness, sure, Saving Private Ryan invents a US army platoon and a rescue mission. But it doesn’t, I dunno, try to make it seem like the Germans were heroically fighting to save France from the evil invading British and Americans.

If most of your story has to be fictionalized, maybe you should tell another story. And how could your film be edutainment if all the history you’re educating people about is made up?

So… season 3 renewal, when HBO?

The demand for racism far exceeds the supply, unfortunately for you.

OMG I'm gay and this is so annoying. Grow up and stop trying to get As in class as an adult. No one is grading you for being the best at speaking for gay people

Ain’t that the truth. As soon as I saw the word “problematic” in the sub-heading I knew that’s what this review would be about. Not the episode, which the reviewer doesn’t seem to understand (her comments about the show being boring are testament to that), but just because a gay character died.

I really wish we had expert reviews of this show like we got with the original. Reviews that focus on what the episode is setting up with the primary focus being the events of the episode and what they are leading to next with full spoiler talk. And that point out differences from the source.