I love this show but damn, as a biracial guy attending a private liberal arts college, this hits soooo close to home. Like i’m asian/white but there are moments with Sam’s character where it gets way too real.

What are Black Women not the heroes of? Answer that for me.

My opinion of him was rather nebulous and half-formed until he asked Reggie if he was going to hit him. Solidified right into the “nope” column. What the fuck was that?

I know what Joelle said about her preferences but I really want her and Gabe to end up with each other. (The two actors had great chemistry and comedic timing. Amedori has a more relaxed easiness with Featherson than he does with Browning.) I hope in the second season we have more scenes of just the two of them.

You are also overlooking a big difference between Coco and Sam. It’s clear that Sam comes from money. The way she dressed in the flashback, the way she walked and talked, she’s a prep. Most likely went to private schools. (I can see her going to private Catholic schools, for some reason.) Probably grew up in the…

They’re taking the best page out of OINTB’s book by using flashbacks to create an sympathetic portrait of what might otherwise be a wholly unsympathetic and one-dimensional character, and I am very here for it.

Yes. This. They are all flawed characters to varying degrees. Trying to do what they know to do with what they have and sometimes adjust accordingly. Kinda like ....

I am interested to see this show, though I doubt I will recognize younger versions of myself or my friends. See, although I fight for it- I’ve felt divorced from the Black community for quite some time. When I started UCLA in the fall of ‘92 - the Queer & Black communities were... barely civil. I had to choose. I…

Also Kelsey is low key my favorite

when i watched the coco-sam throwback to their freshman year, i texted my friend saying that i loved colandrea more than anyone else and i worried it was cause of her mirroring whiteness (though i still suspect it’s cause she’s the BEST slash also, the south side of chicago is still a big part of my heart more than a…

It’s a tricky setup to walk that line- where is it colorism vs. people preferring someone based on their personality, experiences (which are informed by their skin color), etc.

totally agree. netflix is good about renewing things, and DWP got generally great feedback, minus the racists of the internet, so I’m hoping that she’ll get an episode or two of her own next season. in a wide variety of ways, Sam is sort of a hot dumpster fire of a friend, so I’ll be really interested in seeing her…

I’m with you... I think I may have to just stream this in the middle of my office and force the white people to watch it. It may be the only way, and the only way I can keep my sanity after 14 months straight in a all-white office.

I’m a white person too. This show is hilarious and tackles race issues head on. I don’t feel uncomfortable with this show, and I want to hear these stories from the perspective of Black identity and experiences.

I loved this show so much. I’m not Black but I’m a member of a minority group that’s always lumped together as though we all have the same thoughts all the time, which I know happens to other groups generally and Black people specifically. It was so refreshing and amazing to see diversity within the Black students on…

Is it really safe to interpret Reggie’s attraction to Sam over Joelle as an example of colorism, though? The writers make it very clear that Joelle is sidelined as a friend while Reggie pursues Sam, but it almost feels too...ham fisted for an otherwise nuanced show. There was no development of those relationships…

I know!! I teared up when I saw him finally let himself feel that shoulder grab!! It was one of those forever moments. gahhh it’s so good!!

Proposed names: “Dear Wipipo” or “You Don’t Own Me and That Bugs You”. And that is as far as this white guy is going to take this. This show is awesome and those two women are a huge part of why. I think a lot of people use the name as an excuse to not watch it and therefore experience some discomfort as their POV is…

I binged this show 2 days ago. It was SO GOOD. I started in getting to know Sam, and by the end it was all the conflicted threads Coco dealt with that really slayed me. I keep thinking the show. It was a masterpiece.