dsc: I think it [the explanation for why so many of the lead characters - some holding high positions in Regency-era Great Britain - are portrayed as Black] was something about “showing how wonderful we are,” but I don’t quite remember.
Sounds like they pulled it out of their *ss.
Have nothing against actors of one ethnicity playing characters of another - perhaps that one Black actor was simply the best they could find for the role.
But is there any "in-universe" acknowledgement of their Blackness? I would hope not.
Regards,
“Have nothing against actors of one ethnicity playing characters of another”
Where it amounts to the rewriting of history, I oppose it.
What would leftwads say if someone cast a Caucasian to play Nat Turner?
The show had to conform to diversity quotas, so they took a very enjoyable but shallow series of somewhat steamy Regency romances and basically put them in another universe. From what I’ve heard about this show in Regency romance facebook groups, I’d have to pretend I never read the original books. Which is a shame because the first story is funny and touching. What is stupid really, is that they *could* have written a believable historical story, with black and/or multiethnic people, but would have to put it in France before The Terror.