Well, You Know, We All Want To Change The World
I recommend the show TV Revolution that Bravo is airing this week.
I know a little bit about the presentation of minorities in television. Partly this comes from my experiences with Buffy fans, but my interest pre-dated that to some degree, and stems mostly from reading books like Where the Girls Are, Alternate Channels, and Prime Time Blues. All of which I also recommend, even moreso than the series.
So far, Bravo’s look at the subject seems fair. I found little to which to object, and much to praise.
(I disagree with the idea floated that Roseanne got critisized solely because she was an angry woman trying to protect the integrity of blue-collar women on television, though. I mean, even she admits now she lost her mind in the first half of the ’90s–and just whose idea was the gloriously shark-jumping lottery season, anyway?)
The New York Times ran a review of the first ep of Bravo’s series a few days ago, that makes a couple of good points I missed.
