being sick of constantly watching shows that seemed to think that POC either didn't exist, or existed only to support white characteres.
Have you seen Showtime's Dexter? I don't think it's on DVD yet (I watched mine on bootleg, yay for China!) but perhaps it's down-loadable.
It's not as good as Homicide, of course. (Very few things are.) It's much less "daily realism," which is one of the reasons I enjoy it (Police procedural shows that are A) realistically done and B) set close to home give me the full-body creeps, which is why I never finished Homicide and actually stopped watching older L&O reruns the summer I was in NYC.), but there is the sense that a foundation of truth was laid as thickly as possible to support the improbable premise. (It's about serial murderers and there is a fair amount of blood and implied gore, just to warn you.)
The result is interesting: the show is set in Miami, and the main character is on the local police force (as a blood analyst). He, his sister, and his girlfriend are white -- but the rest of the regular cast (other officers) are POC, and they make a point of having people speak Spanish (without subtitles!) fairly frequently. When you mentioned subverting stereotypes and having backgrounds and/or subplots unrelated to the main character I thought of this show.
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Mon, May. 14th, 2007 09:14 am (UTC)Have you seen Showtime's Dexter? I don't think it's on DVD yet (I watched mine on bootleg, yay for China!) but perhaps it's down-loadable.
It's not as good as Homicide, of course. (Very few things are.) It's much less "daily realism," which is one of the reasons I enjoy it (Police procedural shows that are A) realistically done and B) set close to home give me the full-body creeps, which is why I never finished Homicide and actually stopped watching older L&O reruns the summer I was in NYC.), but there is the sense that a foundation of truth was laid as thickly as possible to support the improbable premise. (It's about serial murderers and there is a fair amount of blood and implied gore, just to warn you.)
The result is interesting: the show is set in Miami, and the main character is on the local police force (as a blood analyst). He, his sister, and his girlfriend are white -- but the rest of the regular cast (other officers) are POC, and they make a point of having people speak Spanish (without subtitles!) fairly frequently. When you mentioned subverting stereotypes and having backgrounds and/or subplots unrelated to the main character I thought of this show.