WrenchNinja
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Finished watching the first episode. Feels weird, it's sort of like a follow up on the end of the movie while also redoing some events. Curious to see how it continues.
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Dear White People |OT| Bet You Think The Show Is About You
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RastaMentality
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yep. I Am Not Your Negro got trashed on metacritic user scores because of the white reddit/4chan Klan.
Metacritic user scores are the most useless things ever, they always get brigaded by fanboys and assholes it's worse when there is some sort of outrage or controversy. At least imdb tries to remove ratings like this
CrackPebbles
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Just finished binge watching it. Loved the show from start to end.
theignoramus
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Show really isnt militant at all, three episodes in and almost all major characters so far are craving some form of White acceptance. If Conservatives werent such snowflakes, theyd be flattered by the underlying premise that reaching out to White society is still worth Black folks time & energy.
Black Republican
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It's really good. Many lines sound like they're taken straight out of pamphlets, which can be a bit jarring at times, but I love the themes, acting, narrative structure and overall production. It doubles as an intersectionality 101, which will certainly be educational for many.
RedAssedApe
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I like the vibe of the show so far.
Recognized UCLA campus right away. Go bruins.
Recognized UCLA campus right away. Go bruins.
Kain-Nosgoth
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really good to know, because even if they're right and the point has to be made, i hate when a show is too preachy! will try it later, i just finished 13 reasons why so it's perfect!
never watched the movie
TwiztidElf
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"White People"
it was at i think 3.7 before so it getting better.
theignoramus
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I didnt like the #hashtag dialogue either, people dont speak in instagram and twitter captions in real life.
Discotheque
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is this season just an adaptation of the movie or does the plot of the entire season go beyond that?
TurnipFritters
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It's not realistic at all because this is a tv show, but it works in the context of this show because of who Sam is.
It's... sort of a sequel? The show starts out post-black face party, but a couple of the plot threads from the movie don't show up until later in the series.
.....okay
Psychoward
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Are imdb ratings just user reviews?
TurnipFritters
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Yes. Metacritc has actual reviewer scores in addition to user scores.
theignoramus
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Depends whose in the Black caucus and how mad they are at White society on any given day,lol.
Elegant Weapon
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Main reason I have no interest in this show, the film was trash that I feel is for white people, which makes sense since the title is literally a formal greeting directed at white people. I really have no interest in watching the annoying main character realize that she really does love white boys as her primary character arc, it's such a trash character arc I could never see myself watching that continuing narrative as a show
Jeeze, did this show crap in your cereal or what...?
Elegant Weapon
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It was just a shitty film with unlikeable characters. I haven't seen the show, because the movie was trash and very few characters were likable or compelling
The trailers looked average, but 3 episodes in and I'm loving it. The show does a good job covering a lot of complex racial issues that this ignorant fool has little knowledge about, as well as sexuality and gender problems. Sam's actress is fantastic, I hope we see her in stuff after this. Netflix have been on an absolute roll casting wise, Stranger Things, 13 Reasons and now DWP.
HitchcockInTheZiplock
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it goes beyond.
I enjoyed this more than the movie, and I really liked the movie. There's some real moments. Made me shed a tear a few times.
I saw this was up at 5:30 in the morn on friday, saw a few eps, then decided to binge watch the entire thing right then.
OG Shaka Zulu
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Is the movie militant?
Not at all
Psychoward
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OK, I know the only MC number worth looking at is the critics but I didn't know how IMDB handles it too. Seeing the IMDB score and knowing what show it is sadly made me think it was user score generated. I was right. Yay.
This is the reason why I wasn't feeling the movie and probably won't be feeling the show either
And_Gignac
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Should I watch the movie before the series?
Very accurate. Probably the first time i laughed out loud while watching this show when I realized how cringey scandal can be lol
highrider
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I couldn't make it through more than the first 15 minutes. It seems like a standard portrayal of standard racial tropes ( clueless rich whites, the intelligent blacks forced to deal with their insensitivity and stupidity ) that aren't anything new or interesting, at least not to me. Which isn't to say it's bad, but I guess I was expecting a different perspective.
Although, I am older and not college educated. It seems like it speaks to a more specific experience and age group.
Although, I am older and not college educated. It seems like it speaks to a more specific experience and age group.
SamuelSupreme
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Glad to see most of the cast returning.
lightskintwin
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LOL You had your mind made up before watching it.
As someone is only a year removed from undergrad PWI (albeit not at an ivy, although I have friends and family who are/were), I do want to clarify that a lot of the characterizations and situations were spot-freaking-on.
And for people complaining about the character's ever lasting focus on white people and supremacy, I could tell that the show was really a satire towards today college students. It's not a flaw from the filmmaking, that's actually how a lot of black college student are, especially since 2014
The original movie was made in 2013, so it missed the Ferguson shift by several months. Even though I felt the movie could have been a better film in general, the series gains a lot from the evolving culture shift of BSUs post 2014. As someone who started college in 2012 and finished in 2016, the differences are extra illuminating because I was in school in both eras.
The cliquishness between black student groups? Check
Gathering in the student lounge on Thursdays to watch Scandal? Check
Speaking in hashtags? Check (yes that actually happened/happens)
The sort of blind activism that Sam and her friends go through without any thought to getting tangible results? Check.
The trendiness of being "unapologetically black"? Check
Black kids arriving to college not know who they black ass is from the next but two years later are blackity black black? Check.
OH, and the token female asian friend? I bout died laughing cause its so true
Like, all the subtleties were there. The series is everything I wanted from the movie.
And for people complaining about the character's ever lasting focus on white people and supremacy, I could tell that the show was really a satire towards today college students. It's not a flaw from the filmmaking, that's actually how a lot of black college student are, especially since 2014
The original movie was made in 2013, so it missed the Ferguson shift by several months. Even though I felt the movie could have been a better film in general, the series gains a lot from the evolving culture shift of BSUs post 2014. As someone who started college in 2012 and finished in 2016, the differences are extra illuminating because I was in school in both eras.
The cliquishness between black student groups? Check
Gathering in the student lounge on Thursdays to watch Scandal? Check
Speaking in hashtags? Check (yes that actually happened/happens)
The sort of blind activism that Sam and her friends go through without any thought to getting tangible results? Check.
The trendiness of being "unapologetically black"? Check
Black kids arriving to college not know who they black ass is from the next but two years later are blackity black black? Check.
OH, and the token female asian friend? I bout died laughing cause its so true
Like, all the subtleties were there. The series is everything I wanted from the movie.
Just finished watching the season, and shame about the super forced moments in episode 5 and 10, it could have been done so much better, also some of the story arcs were pretty shallow.
Episode 5 ending was just so insanely telegraphed, white boy crazy overreacting, shy reporter pulling his phone out with a close up shot, and ofc all the coincidences, like someone bumping into the guys that were arguing so they would hit each other to start a fight, and cops getting there in just a few moments from the call, not to mention pulling out a gun in the middle of a room filled with people, most of them white no less.
The end of episode 10 was slightly better but yet again still pretty expected, not to mention once again the cops were acting in a pretty unrealistic fashion, I mean seriously not only was the situation more than handled, but pulling a gun out that you could possibly only ever point into the direction of your colleagues (and one assumes friends) would be completely insane, this before one even takes into account the angry mob behind you.
lol @ you thinking any of that was unrealistic.
Hard to see it as someone from Canada, as University police here do not have guns (why would they? If they need them they can call the real police). If Harvard/Columbia and the like police have guns that's pretty ridiculous IMO. In Canada Special Constables of any kind don't carry guns, although I'm aware this is an American show.
I would say most if not all american campus police carry guns with them, as their jurisdiction tends to be the campus (which for some schools can be basically mini cities), and they act as law enforcement for the school. Especially after things like the VA Tech shooting among others, police here definitely have guns. Which SHOULD only be used when responding to blatantly dangerous and violent situations, not fucking house parties.
I mean, you can easily google cases of campus PD pulling guns on black students, that cops quick escalation did not seem out of place at all to me. But I'm black, so...
The thing is that it isn't just "oh its an american thing", because it isn't, it's a "holy shit that is a fucking strange chain of events, that all culminated in an insanely stupid course of action", there is no denying that there is a pretty alarming amount of coincidences happening to make these things start like I described, and then it gets followed up by absolutely insane decisions, like
, the second even is a bit less of a stretch but still I got to assume that
Pulling a gun in the middle of a room filled with 20 year olds, if you shot someone there is literally a very good chance your bullet would hit someone else, this course of action is so insanely stupid that it goes well well well beyond the "I am a racist douchebag" territory, especially when the person that pulls the weapon has a cop partner near him that does absolutely nothing. Also btw it took like 1 minute and half for cops to get from where they were to inside the house, that is crazy quick
pulling a weapon that puts your partners and probably friends in the line of fire is also not a particularly common course of action even among racist asshole cops.
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