If blind people can figure out how to navigate their homes and works and neighborhoods without sight, surely they can just use that same process to figure out where they need to be on set.

I mean the Richard Pryor stuff sounds like it beats the hell out of Studio 60's one attempt at getting two black guys in the same room, where the older one tells the younger one that he's useless if he doesn't always make jokes about black culture.

Must've taken a lot of math to figure out how to blow entire auditoriums of people in a timely manner…

Mine is also a movie reference!

The implication here is that when your lead actors leave due to race-based discrimination maybe don't bid them farewell by appropriating another race's culture! (I mean maybe don't do that ever but) I don't think that's an unfair thing to say.

I can't think of any situation where "It would be a huge mistake to have an all-white main cast" isn't a true statement. Maybe if you're making a show about the Klan? I dunno.

eh, danno's the only character anyone remembers, so long as someone can say "book 'em danno" at some point it's fine

I mean, it's possible, sure. But it's one of those situations where you feel kinda weird giving the benefit of the doubt, you know? Like when you see a white guy trying to find out when it's okay to use the n-word, you don't assume this is a topic he's got a sincere intellectual interest in; when you see a comedian…

Someone get this man a job writing Variety headlines!

Huh! I thought he'd just been abducted by aliens. That's what I get for trusting the Weekly World News.

Nah, this show is too high class to engage in such cheap stunt casting. They've gotta go for someone distinguished, someone who'll raise the bar, an elder statesman of showbusiness perhaps.

The original series ran twelve seasons, so I suspect this won't end until they at least match it.

CBS is the oldest, whitest network, so none of this surprises me, not even the spokesperson butchering the entirely wrong culture for these specific cast members.

The interiors are obviously sets, but I doubt they built an entire Ivy League college from scratch for the exteriors.

Eventually these kids'll grow up and stop being wrong about racial inequality! Good message.

Yeah I mean, I don't think the conclusion is supposed to be "everyone's wrong." It's nice to have a show where the characters don't have to be saints in order to make valid points about the world around them.

Oh, man, is that what they were going for? I didn't get a good enough look at the camera to tell; I assumed the joke was she got one of those shitty mid-aughts monitor-top webcams so she could record sound.

Really? I'd assume at the very least shooting…wherever the hell they shot it…would jack the price up a bit. It's a pretty cushy looking campus.

…jesus, did they really only make it to Chapter VI? That's embarrassing.

I mean, given the recent endings of Sense8 and The Get Down I am far more gratified to know Dear White People survived. I can wait another few weeks on MST3K.