I haven’t followed any moves to reinstate Smollette in the cast, but it’s my impression the studio handled the case pretty well after the blowout.
Smollette was let go. It cost him as it should.
It seemed a lot of folks on the Left were as angry with him as people on the Right were, surprisingly.
Does anyone see it differently?
Even some liberals are able to see how bad that makes them look. They want sooooooo bad to be victims that they fake it. It's sick - and no one is asking why the 'paid thugs' were carrying a bottle of bleach. I know what crime is committed that's covered up with bleach... Smollett must hate Trump and Trump supporters more than anyone can understand who's not insane.
The studio reacted as well as they could have. They quickly wrote him out of their current season. Then he was “exonerated”, and they put him back in the show. This was the right thing to do since he was not indighted. Then after the police exploded, and investigations started, they wrote him out of the show again. Now I think it is cancelled.
I'd want to know what the cast, production company, and the network knew and when they knew it before deciding whether any/all handled it well.
Any/all could have been complicit in a cover-up.