Where's the diversity on TV? -

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

And I don't mean dindus living in cities, because that's on every show nowadays.

No, where's the real diversity: the Mexicans, the rural Blacks, the American Indians?

Have you ever thought about how every show about Black families is set in some major city like LA or Chicago, and if anybody ever makes a show set in the South its in some trendy faggot city like Nashville or Atlanta? And nobody makes stuff about Mexicans at all, last one I can remember that really had a following was The George Lopez Show from a million years ago.

Why don't we have a sitcom about a bunch of Mexicans living in South Texas? Why don't we have a sitcom about Black rednecks living in a small town in the middle of Alabama?

 

[Mediocre]

Because a TV show about some black guys living in some small town would be boring as hell.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

Or, y'know, Kansas. The whole state. Anyone there. Pick one.

It's because entertainment people are incredibly ignorant with pretty much zero experience with anything outside their little coastal bubble. Even the Christian bible-belt programming is still set in cities. It's all either suburban or urban. There hasn't been a major network show based in a rural community since, what, the Waltons? Dukes of Hazard? Little House on the Prairie? Two were wholesome (boring) bygone-era rose-glasses nostalgia family programming and the other one was jumping the shit out of a '69 Charger for half an hour.

It's only 20% of the country by population. Why make a show set out there? Let's make one instead about a black kid from Philly who moves to his rich Uncle's house in Bel Air! Totally the opposite like whoa!

No disrespect to the Fresh Prince's masterpiece intended. I just want to point out how none of the writers or producers understand how rural communities work so they never even attempt to make any shows about it.

 

[XYZpdq]

iirc there was a purge of all flyover-based content in the Seventies

 

[Irwin M. Felcher]

There hasn't been a major network show based in a rural community since, what, the Waltons? Dukes of Hazard? Little House on the Prairie?

Roseanne? King of the Hill?

 

[kadoink]

Roseanne? King of the Hill?

Roseanne of the Hill.

 

[Cyril Sneer]

There hasn't been a major network show based in a rural community since, what, the Waltons? Dukes of Hazard? Little House on the Prairie? Two were wholesome (boring) bygone-era rose-glasses nostalgia family programming and the other one was jumping the shit out of a '69 Charger for half an hour.

People always describe LHotP to me as a never-ending cavalcade of melodramatic disasters.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Roseanne? King of the Hill?

King of The Hill has been over with for over a decade.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I don't think liberals actually like Mexicans. With black people they can at least masturbate to their "past sins" and how better they are than those evil flyover nazis. Not to mention that some Mexicans can be white and religeous.
Besides that, rural blacks are anathema to city blacks. Actual human beings with values that don't expect being paid for existing, and Indians have completely fucked up culture of corruption and rape that must never be acknowledged, it is better that they exist as the caricatures of their past.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

We might as well go for true representation and have a show about a 600 lb hapas guy living with his disgusted parents and his adventures.
For humor, he should have the foot he lost of diabetes in a jar next to his battlestation gamer area

 

[ColtWalker1847]

People always describe LHotP to me as a never-ending cavalcade of melodramatic disasters.

Shit, I dunno. I only watched the Dukes.

Roseanne? King of the Hill?

Lanford, Il is a fictional suburb of Chicago. Arlen is cartoon Midland/Odessa.

If you think that shit is rural, even by definition, oh boy are you off the mark. It's pretty much the definition of suburbia. How many folks on those shows were loggers? Farmers? Miners? Ranchers? Easy one here, truck drivers?

None of them. Rosanne worked at a diner and a plastics plant and Hank sold propane. Those are working-class blue-collar jobs. But neither are rural.

The fuck person are you going to find to hang drywall like Dan Connor did professionally in a town of 1000 people out in the boonies? You have a base industry and a couple shops for basic home supplies and maybe a bank and that's it. If you want drywall hung, you do it your damn self. It doesn't sustain itself as a business out there so you don't have professionals available.

You starting to get my point about the out of touch thing?

 

[garakfan69]

There hasn't been a major network show based in a rural community since, what, the Waltons? Dukes of Hazard? Little House on the Prairie?

Twin Peaks

 

[The Token Ethnic]

I think I'm one of the few people that doesn't care about that stuff. If there's someone similar to my background, then that's cool. If not, I am not going to lose sleep over it. When they even attempt at making stuff aimed at my "demographic" in regards to shows, they make crap like the 'One Day at a Time' remake with the insufferable progressive daughter. The pandering they do is embarrasing. I'd love an 'All in the Family' remake with an asian, black, hispanic or native family. The Archie Bunker character would be hilarious.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

People always describe LHotP to me as a never-ending cavalcade of melodramatic disasters.

So like real life.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

In regards to Hispanics, I think the ones who have time to watch tv either pay for cable/satellite to get the Spanish-language channels, or stream pirated shows from the home country. I don't think the people who actually natively speak Spanish have been indoctrinated into the VALIDATE MEEE mindset, and just want their old domestic shows. The same for Asians. The actual immigrants just stream their old shows, which are better than modern American woke media could ever fart out.

 

[Ma Wang]

People always describe LHotP to me as a never-ending cavalcade of melodramatic disasters.

The rape episode was creepy as fuck.

 

[Jozef]

To Hollywood, fictional places like Lanford, IL and Arlen, TX IS "rural". They don't know what rural is, that's why we get small to medium sized cities with every amenity being passed off as "small towns". Don't forget that all the characters hate living there and all they talk about is wanting to "get out of this dump". The successful, intelligent ones move away, and anyone who stays is a stupid redneck straight out of Deliverance.

Basically, most shows that take place in a rural, or "rural" area are what Hollywood thinks of all the "dirty rednecks in flyover country".

 

[mr.moon1488]

Because a TV show about some black guys living in some small town would be boring as hell.

I've always thought it would be funny to make a documentary about rural southern blacks, since a lot of them absolutely hate city blacks.

 

[Munchingonfish]

Disney made a Party of Five reboot about deported Mexicans.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Roseanne? King of the Hill?

King of the Hill was meant to be a Parody of "TEXANS" it just happened that the writing was so bad Hank came out as the good guy alot of the time.