From The Best Show Ever to…90210.

So we talked about this before, and it doesn’t exactly squash our reservations. We get that this is a good career move for Tristan Wilds. Being a principal on a smart HBO show with literally dozens of characters guarantees an actor a lot of critical acclaim and not much else. But being a principal on a frothy CW show with a much smaller cast guarantees a good deal of exposure and, not insignificantly, some tall-ass money.

But is dude on some token shit here?

We haven’t seen any of this new show, so any such assertion would be early. But the press materials — ‘an adopted kid from a troubled background’ in an otherwise lily-white cast — don’t exactly challenge that assertion that the show has a cap on the number of people of color allowed.*

*Seriously, people: there is no way anyone can intelligently justify TV shows set entirely in New York and California having nary an Asian or Latino or black face in sight.

G.D.

G.D.

Gene "G.D." Demby is the founder and editor of PostBourgie. In his day job, he blogs and reports on race and ethnicity for NPR's Code Switch team.
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  • blu

    you couldn’t be more right. i was wondering, why didn’t they just make him one of the black kids in the school? you know someone who came from a black family that just so happened to live in the hills. i guess to that’s just too many damn niggas to have on one show. i dont know. i’ll be watchin just to see him though.

  • Tasha

    how’d we get back here?
    i guess we should just be happy there’s one?
    90210 had…none…so up to 1… 20 years later
    progress…