TMC
09-25-2015, 01:07 AM
http://t.co/3jP1zgPbhK
As James Poniewozik points out, “series like Black-ish and Empire can pass a sort of racial version of the Bechdel Test, the feminist-criticism measure of whether a story has two female characters who talk to each other about something besides a man: having minority characters talk about race in a way that’s not always in relation to white people.” PLUS: With Empire, TV is finally tackling the intersection of race and class (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/09/24/tv-is-finally-tackling-the-intersection-of-race-and-class/), and Empire has become the most aggressively political soap (http://www.vulture.com/2015/09/empire-is-the-most-political-soap-in-tv-history.html) in TV history.
As James Poniewozik points out, “series like Black-ish and Empire can pass a sort of racial version of the Bechdel Test, the feminist-criticism measure of whether a story has two female characters who talk to each other about something besides a man: having minority characters talk about race in a way that’s not always in relation to white people.” PLUS: With Empire, TV is finally tackling the intersection of race and class (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/09/24/tv-is-finally-tackling-the-intersection-of-race-and-class/), and Empire has become the most aggressively political soap (http://www.vulture.com/2015/09/empire-is-the-most-political-soap-in-tv-history.html) in TV history.