With Their White Feminist Bias, TV’s Prestige Dramas Continue to Fail

Indie Wire ^ | July 11, 2019 | Libby Hill

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It’s 2019. Television is at the zenith of its powers of influence and, in the real world, times are troubled, fueled by existential dread, blatant racism, xenophobia, and sexism, much of it funneled straight from the White House. If TV wants to be the dominant art form, then it must hold itself to a higher standard of conversation, a standard that that its current crop of prestige dramas, including “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Big Little Lies,” and recently concluded cultural phenomenon “Game of Thrones,” fall, repeatedly and spectacularly, short of.

Too often these shows – and many others, at many other networks – want to tell unique and nuanced stories, but because of the homogenous nature of those in charge, end up creating shows offering identical points of view. It becomes myopic and verges on cognitive dissonance because while the world is slowly but surely realizing that people other than white men have stories to be told and celebrated, TV has yet to catch up.

It’s a failure, not of imagination, but of recognizing all of the things that you don’t know and working to surround yourself with and listen to people as unlike you as possible, the better to build a world that reflects our own

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I tried to read this drivel.

It’s complete gibberish.

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I think it's more politicized feminism that dooms Handmaid. If Big Little Lies has a problem it may be the upper middle class thing. You can satirize the affluent milieu for a season, but stretch a series out longer than that and it looks too much like you approve of it and luxuriate in it. I don't see what white feminism has to do with Game of Thrones. It's too much of a stretch.

P.S. Check out the pictures of the showrunners. They look like creepy furtive porn addicts.