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Some of the systemic racism Black people face in America, she says, comes from negative stereotypes on TV. So they decided to speak up about their concerns over how Black contestants are depicted on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just Black Lives Matter when it comes to the police,” says Brice Johnston, who competed on \u003cem>Survivor: Cagayan\u003c/em> alongside Hart and felt he was stereotyped as a sassy, flamboyant Black gay man. “It’s Black Lives Matter [for us] as reality contestants … our lives, our stories, we matter as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em> is CBS’s longest-running reality TV show, involving several production companies, including MGM Television. 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Most seasons have two or three Black contestants; one had none.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earl Cole became the first Black man to win the show in 2007, on \u003cem>Survivor: Fiji \u003c/em>(the first Black person to win, Vecepia Towery, won on \u003cem>Survivor: Marquesas\u003c/em>). In fact, Cole’s season featured five Black contestants, just like the previous season, \u003cem>Survivor: Cook Islands\u003c/em>. That season produced the show’s first Asian American winner, Yul Kwon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cole said competing in a season where Black people weren’t heavily outnumbered by white people helped Black players feel less isolated. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ramona Gray Amaro has a spot in reality TV history. She is the first Black woman to compete on CBS’s unscripted hit series \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>, which took 16 people and isolated them on an island in Malaysia, vying for a million-dollar prize, on the show’s first season in 2000, \u003cem>Survivor: Borneo\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she saw how she was depicted in the show, which takes footage filmed on the island and edits it into episodes aired months later on network TV, Amaro also felt she was also one of the first Black people stereotyped by \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says footage showing her lying around her team’s campsite early in the competition made her look lazy, feeding into stereotypes about Black people. But she was suffering from dehydration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the program eventually showed her regaining her strength and working harder, she was voted off the island after 12 days. Amaro felt the damage was done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I became the lazy person, which is the furthest thing from the truth,” says Amaro. “That really upset me and it took me a long time to get over it. … To realize, we signed our life away. They can do whatever they want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Some of the systemic racism Black people face in America, she says, comes from negative stereotypes on TV. So they decided to speak up about their concerns over how Black contestants are depicted on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just Black Lives Matter when it comes to the police,” says Brice Johnston, who competed on \u003cem>Survivor: Cagayan\u003c/em> alongside Hart and felt he was stereotyped as a sassy, flamboyant Black gay man. “It’s Black Lives Matter [for us] as reality contestants … our lives, our stories, we matter as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em> is CBS’s longest-running reality TV show, involving several production companies, including MGM Television. CBS declined to respond on the record to the criticisms, but said it will meet with the alumni. “CBS condemns racism in all its forms and we are committed to inclusive and safe production environments,” the network said in a statement. “In the spirit of partnership with former contestants, we have responded to the request from the Black Survivor Alliance to meet with representatives from the show and CBS, and we’re working together to set a time for this discussion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 30 percent of the show’s cast in the last 10 seasons have already been BIPOC, according to CBS. \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/RHI225219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Census estimates\u003c/a> say the percentage of America’s population that is white alone—Hispanic people can be white, too—is 60 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show has had just four Black winners over 40 seasons—at 10 percent, that’s a little less than the percentage of America’s Black population, which is 13 percent. 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It also removed an extra level of difficulty Black contestants face on less diverse seasons, where they must navigate how a larger group of white players reacts to their race, in addition to the typical challenges of the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Cole doesn’t have many gripes about how he was depicted—he says the show has to make whoever wins look good to keep viewers engaged—he felt CBS didn’t offer him many opportunities afterward. His season also featured two Black people as runners-up, but Cole felt the show failed to capitalize on the historic nature of his win, especially in reaching out to black-centered media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have really uplifted me a certain way … it maybe would have gotten [the show] more of a Black audience,” he adds. “They didn’t have a system in place to handle the different directions you might go with a person of color. 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"content": "\u003cp>Carl Reiner’s career began at the dawn of television comedy in the 1950s and lasted more than six decades. The actor, director, writer and producer died of natural causes Monday night at his home in Beverly Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiner belonged to a generation of Jewish comics who helped define American comedy in the 20th century. He was born Carleton Reiner in the Bronx in 1922 to parents who had emigrated from Europe. He began as a serious actor, then a stand-up comic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Nation-800x617.jpg\" alt=\"Reiner (top center), Sid Caesar (left), and Howard Morris bother railroad commuter Nanette Fabray on an episode of the sketch comedy show 'Caesar's Hour' in 1955.\" width=\"800\" height=\"617\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882727\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Nation-800x617.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Nation-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Nation-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Nation-768x592.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Nation.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reiner (top center), Sid Caesar (left), and Howard Morris bother railroad commuter Nanette Fabray on an episode of the sketch comedy show ‘Caesar’s Hour’ in 1955. \u003ccite>(Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1950, comic actor Sid Caesar hired Reiner for the pioneering live TV sketch comedy program, \u003cem>Your Show of Shows.\u003c/em> Reiner was a writer alongside Woody Allen, Neil Simon and Mel Brooks. He also acted as a supporting player.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a second banana to such a massive first banana … wasn’t a comedown at all for me,” said Reiner. “I realized I was working with the best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiner always seemed to work with the best — Caesar, Brooks, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, George Clooney, Amy Poehler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with Brooks, Reiner co-created one of American comedy’s most memorable characters — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOTKDgrdvdg\">2,000-year-old man\u003c/a>. It began as a party joke, and became a huge hit on albums, in clubs and on television. In the skit, Reiner would interview Brooks, who played the oldest man in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/XOTKDgrdvdg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is the job of the audience,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120909130\">Reiner told NPR’s Scott Simon\u003c/a> in 2009. “I’m asking all the questions the audience would die to ask a man who lived for 2,000 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a combination of truth and incongruity that made it work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiner’s most memorable solo creation came in 1960, when he wrote a script for a TV sitcom called \u003cem>Head of the Family.\u003c/em> It was about a TV comedy writer and he was the star. But Reiner couldn’t sell the show until someone else was cast in the lead — that someone else turned out to be Dick Van Dyke. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> The Dick Van Dyke Show \u003c/em>was a milestone in American TV sitcoms. Reiner wrote many episodes and he played Alan Brady, the arrogant and egotistical star of the show within the show. The show ran from 1961 to 1966. It made stars of both Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not only been my mentor and good friend, but possibly the best comedy writer who ever lived,” Van Dyke said of Reiner \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/10/11/447591736/dance-sing-just-keep-moving-dick-van-dyke-tells-seniors\">in a 2015 NPR interview\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiner directed more than a dozen movies, including four with Steve Martin. “We became very, very close,” Martin said. “He was like a father to me — although I wouldn’t let him bathe me like he wanted to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Awards-800x691.jpg\" alt=\"Reiner won an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy for The Dick Van Dyke in 1963.\" width=\"800\" height=\"691\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882728\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Awards-800x691.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Awards-1020x881.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Awards-160x138.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Awards-768x663.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Awards.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reiner won an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy for The Dick Van Dyke in 1963. \u003ccite>(Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reiner was a funny man. But if there’s a theme to his career, it was that he made other comics funnier. He was a \u003cem>mensch\u003c/em>. He won nine Emmys and a Grammy. And yet whenever it was time to take credit for something, Reiner would almost always deflect the credit to his partners, whether it was to his longtime collaborator Mel Brooks (“Mel Brooks is the single funniest human being that I ever met”) or his wife of almost 65 years, Estelle (“I never felt that I had enough words to be a writer, but my wife is the one who gave me the key.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estelle Reiner died in 2008. They had three children, including Rob Reiner who — inspired by his father — has also directed and acted in dozens of movies and TV shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiner was active well into his 90s. On \u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em> he played a politically-powerful senior. He did voice-overs for the TV series \u003cem>Bob’s Burgers\u003c/em>. And \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/carlreiner\">he tweeted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two old friends — Brooks and Reiner — had dinner together almost every night. In 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/carl-reiner-mel-brooks-i-want-sandwiches-i-want-chicken\">they did an episode\u003c/a> of Jerry Seinfeld’s Web series \u003cem>Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.\u003c/em> As Seinfeld walked out the front door of Reiner’s house, he just \u003cem>had\u003c/em> to tell one more joke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey Jerry,” Reiner called. “You know the difference between a Jew and a Frenchman? A Frenchman leaves without saying goodbye. A Jew says goodbye and never leaves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goodbye, Carl Reiner. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. 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In the skit, Reiner would interview Brooks, who played the oldest man in the world.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/XOTKDgrdvdg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/XOTKDgrdvdg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“My job is the job of the audience,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120909130\">Reiner told NPR’s Scott Simon\u003c/a> in 2009. “I’m asking all the questions the audience would die to ask a man who lived for 2,000 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a combination of truth and incongruity that made it work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiner’s most memorable solo creation came in 1960, when he wrote a script for a TV sitcom called \u003cem>Head of the Family.\u003c/em> It was about a TV comedy writer and he was the star. But Reiner couldn’t sell the show until someone else was cast in the lead — that someone else turned out to be Dick Van Dyke. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> The Dick Van Dyke Show \u003c/em>was a milestone in American TV sitcoms. Reiner wrote many episodes and he played Alan Brady, the arrogant and egotistical star of the show within the show. The show ran from 1961 to 1966. It made stars of both Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not only been my mentor and good friend, but possibly the best comedy writer who ever lived,” Van Dyke said of Reiner \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/10/11/447591736/dance-sing-just-keep-moving-dick-van-dyke-tells-seniors\">in a 2015 NPR interview\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiner directed more than a dozen movies, including four with Steve Martin. “We became very, very close,” Martin said. “He was like a father to me — although I wouldn’t let him bathe me like he wanted to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Awards-800x691.jpg\" alt=\"Reiner won an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy for The Dick Van Dyke in 1963.\" width=\"800\" height=\"691\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882728\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Awards-800x691.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Awards-1020x881.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Awards-160x138.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Awards-768x663.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Reiner.Awards.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reiner won an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy for The Dick Van Dyke in 1963. \u003ccite>(Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reiner was a funny man. But if there’s a theme to his career, it was that he made other comics funnier. He was a \u003cem>mensch\u003c/em>. He won nine Emmys and a Grammy. And yet whenever it was time to take credit for something, Reiner would almost always deflect the credit to his partners, whether it was to his longtime collaborator Mel Brooks (“Mel Brooks is the single funniest human being that I ever met”) or his wife of almost 65 years, Estelle (“I never felt that I had enough words to be a writer, but my wife is the one who gave me the key.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estelle Reiner died in 2008. They had three children, including Rob Reiner who — inspired by his father — has also directed and acted in dozens of movies and TV shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiner was active well into his 90s. On \u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em> he played a politically-powerful senior. He did voice-overs for the TV series \u003cem>Bob’s Burgers\u003c/em>. And \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/carlreiner\">he tweeted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two old friends — Brooks and Reiner — had dinner together almost every night. In 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/carl-reiner-mel-brooks-i-want-sandwiches-i-want-chicken\">they did an episode\u003c/a> of Jerry Seinfeld’s Web series \u003cem>Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.\u003c/em> As Seinfeld walked out the front door of Reiner’s house, he just \u003cem>had\u003c/em> to tell one more joke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey Jerry,” Reiner called. “You know the difference between a Jew and a Frenchman? A Frenchman leaves without saying goodbye. A Jew says goodbye and never leaves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goodbye, Carl Reiner. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/508048614/lin-manuel-miranda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lin-Manuel Miranda\u003c/a>, creator of the hip-hop musical \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em>, history always informs the present. “The past isn’t done with us. Ever, ever, ever,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em> tells the story of the nation’s founding fathers, including Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Miranda wrote the music and lyrics and starred in the original production, which debuted on Broadway in 2015. The production garnered 11 Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize for drama and a Grammy for its original cast recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miranda’s been heartened to see the musical’s lyrics—including “I’m past patiently waiting” and “History has its eyes on you”—printed on signs at \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/06/871553038/largely-peaceful-anti-police-brutality-protests-continue-across-the-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Lives Matter protests \u003c/a>around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you write a musical that brushes against sort of the origins of this country, it’s always going to be relevant,” he says. “The fights we had at the [country’s] origin are the fights we’re still having. … I’ve always said that slavery is the original sin of this country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A film of the original Broadway production of \u003cem>Hamilton,\u003c/em> taped in 2016\u003cem>, \u003c/em>will begin streaming on Disney+ on July 3. Miranda, who stars in the title role, calls the film a “a love letter and thank you” to the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably the best rehearsed movie cast of all time, because we’d been doing our roles for a year,” Miranda says. “It’s not a definitive production of a live\u003cem> Hamilton\u003c/em>, but it is a snapshot of what it felt like with that company at the end of June of 2016.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSCKfXpAGHc\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the way \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Hamilton \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>fits into the country’s current conversation about systemic racism and the legacy of slavery \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Slavery] is in the third line of our show. It’s a system in which every character in our show is complicit in some way or another. 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The great Michaela Watkins, who can add thick layers of character backstory with every muttered aside, gets a star turn as a sardonic federal prosecutor. Shalita Grant, as Dory’s defense lawyer, takes a character who at first risks coming off as a one-joke, superficial millennial and invests her with hilarious depth and intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is not to say that the main cast is cooling their heels. Hagner’s Portia gets to do a bit of soul-searching (it’s more a soul-glancing), Early’s Elliott gets brought low in a way he’s long deserved, and Reynolds’ Drew starts to grow a rudimentary spine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s Shawkat, as once-compliant Dory, who gets the most to do. The events of the past two seasons have changed her. 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The film now features a new introduction by film scholar and Turner Classic Movies host Jacqueline Stewart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the introduction, Stewart addresses the film’s problematic depiction of the Antebellum South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eighty years after its initial release, \u003cem>Gone With the Wind\u003c/em> is a film of undeniable cultural significance,” she says. “It is not only a major document of Hollywood’s racist practices of the past but also an enduring work of popular culture that speaks directly to the racial inequalities that persist in media and society today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart adds that the film depicts a “world of grace and beauty, without acknowledging the brutalities of the system of chattel slavery upon which this world is based.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The streaming service also added two companion videos along with the return of the film. One video features a panel discussion on the film’s controversial legacy and another provides more information about Hattie McDaniel, who in 1940 became the first African American to win an Oscar for her portrayal of the enslaved “Mammy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882564\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/hattie-mcdaniel-abd64f4017d01cf1c51018280ea644e1b9b92418-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles school children attend a ceremony unveiling a commemorative U.S. Postal Service stamp for actor Hattie McDaniel in 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif. 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It curdles all too readily into toxic behavior—disdaining, or performatively lashing out at, kids whose queerness can’t be as conveniently hidden; paranoia that their secret will come out before they can; a festering self-hatred that fuels thoughts of self-harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, we just see Victor get a bit rattled around the queer people he meets. There’s a nugget of truth, there—just as there’s something intriguing about Victor’s romantic relationship with popular girl Mia. The show pays lip service to the notion that Victor may be bisexual or nonbinary without ever truly engaging with it, because the story it seeks to tell is a more familiar one altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a winsome, pillow-lipped hottie for Simon to moon over (George Sear), you see, and awkward passes to be made and rebuffed. There’s a revelation that must be revealed—first to his weird best friend, intentionally, and then to other interested parties, along the accidental-yet-wildly-convenient routes that are the stuff of rom-coms (always check for feet under the bathroom stalls before baring your dang soul, people; come on, we’ve been over this).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is to say: Despite the differences between their leads, \u003cem>Love, Victor\u003c/em> conforms exactly to the narrative shape and modest, crowd-pleasing ambitions of the film that preceded it. And if that’s where the show’s intentions lie, and it manages to tell its conventional tale with charming performances from Cimino et al., why begrudge it not doing more? 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Victor’s high school friends slot neatly into types—the eccentric pal (Anthony Turpel), the popular rich girl (Rachel Hilson), her friend who speaks in a stream of just-past-their-sell-by-date pop-culture references (Bebe Wood), the arrogant jock (Mason Gooding). 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To queer kids like Victor who can pass for straight, the guardedness they carry isn’t quickly or easily dropped. It curdles all too readily into toxic behavior—disdaining, or performatively lashing out at, kids whose queerness can’t be as conveniently hidden; paranoia that their secret will come out before they can; a festering self-hatred that fuels thoughts of self-harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, we just see Victor get a bit rattled around the queer people he meets. There’s a nugget of truth, there—just as there’s something intriguing about Victor’s romantic relationship with popular girl Mia. The show pays lip service to the notion that Victor may be bisexual or nonbinary without ever truly engaging with it, because the story it seeks to tell is a more familiar one altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a winsome, pillow-lipped hottie for Simon to moon over (George Sear), you see, and awkward passes to be made and rebuffed. 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"content": "\u003cp>If there is one emotion that hangs over our world these days—other than fear and anger, perhaps—it is grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the grief that comes from watching the death of George Floyd captured on a bystander’s video, pleading for his mother and his breath, while a police officer kneels with a knee on his neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s grief over what that moment said about police and the policing of black people, along with grief over the protests and violence in some American cities as people demand answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s the grief of Coronavirus, as we mourn lives cut short, and shoulder the loss of jobs, business opportunities, weddings, vacations, graduations, senior proms …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this difficult time, television shows have emerged as a surprising resource, with important examples of how people process grief and handle journeys of loss. An increasing number of fictional dramas and comedy series center on characters struggling with grief in raw and emotional ways, which some experts say can actually help all of us learn how to process those feelings better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think there’s a lot of power in the media starting to embrace grief as a conversation,” says Joanne Weingarten, the Senior Clinical Coordinator of adult programs at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ourhouse-grief.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our House Grief Support Center \u003c/a>in Los Angeles. “The thing I find really powerful about these shows, is that they don’t solve grief in one episode. When you live in a culture that says after three days when someone you love dies, you should be back in the workforce, that can be really confusing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have used the term “traumedies” to describe comedies about pain and loss. But there’s a wide range of shows mining the subject, featuring grief and grieving characters centrally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, it’s counterintuitive to typical TV development, which focuses on likable characters viewers want inside their homes—grieving characters can be unlikable and difficult to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holly Daniels, a former actress (\u003cem>House\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Castle)\u003c/em>, now has a doctorate in psychology and serves as Managing Director of Clinical Affairs for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.camft.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. She says TV shows that treat grief as a momentary state often miss the mark, feeding into a culture that tells viewers major life problems can have simple solutions rooted in consumerism, like purchasing the right car or the right house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being in the rat race of our consumer culture, [the lockdowns sparked by the pandemic] forced us to kind of take a step back and figure out what is meaningful to us,” Daniels says. “Consumer culture disengages us. … We almost needed something this global to make us step back from that and look at our lives. … That’s what I see in these shows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may sound odd to highlight fictional stories about grief at a time when so much of the real thing is around. But experts say there is also a catharsis in watching someone struggle with feelings you are having—it’s also one of the most powerful dynamics that binds us to television—and there is a lot about grief and grieving that today’s TV shows get right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s my list of the best TV shows that depict grief these days, along with a little analysis from the experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hbo.com/i-know-this-much-is-true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>I Know This Much Is True\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> (HBO)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4KBGydqlVk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this miniseries, based on a Wally Lamb novel, Mark Ruffalo gives anguished, emotional performances as two people; twin brothers, Dominick and Thomas. Though the first episode features Thomas committing a horrific act while struggling with mental illness, it is Dominick we see constantly suffering from grief—pushing away friends and family members after the loss of his mother, his baby, his marriage and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, Dominick seems the brother most in need of help, as his twin’s commitment to an institution sends him into a spiral of anger, self-loathing, guilt and anxiety that lasts years. In the miniseries, Dominick’s ex-wife, girlfriend, best friend and stepfather all step back in the wake of his blistering anger; for viewers, it makes watching the middle episodes of the miniseries a challenge as we plunge deeper into his dark world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Experts say:\u003c/strong> “Grief is really messy; it can be a lot of tangled emotions, positive and negative, over many months or many years,” says Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, a physician who also was an executive producer of \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80210691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>End Game\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> a Netflix documentary short about end of life issues. “Anxiety is the missing stage of grief that nobody talks about, but so many people are feeling right now. Giving ourselves permission to feel that can be really therapeutic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80998491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>After Life \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>(Netflix)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIGGKSHMQOM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricky Gervais plays a more depressed and suicidal version of himself as Tony Johnson, features editor for a small community newspaper, who is drowning in grief after his beloved wife dies of breast cancer. At first, he plans to kill himself, then copes by doing whatever he wants—often lobbing insults at those around him, as only Gervais can—as a way of punishing the world. But when others try to help him, his attitude changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Experts say:\u003c/strong> “This show does a really good job of not sugarcoating his grief,” says Weingarten of the Our House Center. “It shows that he is angry, sad, and at moments wants to end his life. But, slowly, he tries to put one foot in front of the other, [though] there are setbacks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80219707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Dead to Me \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>(Netflix)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwYBw1raC2o\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the oddest buddy comedies on TV, Christina Applegate plays Jen Harding, a realtor struggling to handle grief after her husband is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Her life improves when she meets Judy Hale, played by Linda Cardellini, another widow at a grief support group who becomes a fast and close friend. But (spoiler alert!) when Jen learns that Judy isn’t exactly who she says she is, their relationship changes. In the second season, which debuted recently, Jen is still struggling to control her anger as their roles switch and she is forced to hide a terrible secret from Judy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Experts say:\u003c/strong> “You want to make sure you’re not putting pressure on yourself in the early stages of grief to see silver linings or find meaning or do work to make yourself a better person,” says Daniels, noting the pressure on Applegate’s character to improve during support group meetings. “If you’re in the angry phase or you’re in the ‘Everybody leave me alone, I need some space’ phase, that’s okay too. Just by showing us how these characters are feeling and letting us see that, without someone jumping in to fix it right away, is a huge help to a lot of people. … It really can be a comfort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbc.com/this-is-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>This Is Us\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> (NBC)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxORiOOrE8I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NBC’s super-successful family drama centers on three grown siblings—two biological and one adopted—born on the same day. But the show depicts them at different times in their lives—as tweens, teens and adults—slowly revealing that much of the series’ storylines are centered on how the siblings have been affected across the breadth of their lives by the death of their father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Experts say:\u003c/strong> “That’s a show people at the [Our House Grief] Center talk about a lot … [because] we grieve not just for the current moment, we grieve for the future we planned with the person who died,” says Weingarten. “Every time there’s an event that you expected that person to [attend], there will be some grief involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sorryforyourloss/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Sorry For Your Loss \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>(Facebook Watch)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajPHIp-ZgfA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This under-the-radar series is probably the best original show Facebook has produced yet for its Watch platform. \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> franchise star Elizabeth Olsen plays Leigh Shaw, a young widow who left her job writing an advice column to move in with her mother and sister after her husband dies. As a widow, Leigh feels the most entitled to show her grief, but the series reveals that everyone in her family is struggling with the loss of her husband in different ways, including her husband’s brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Experts say:\u003c/strong> “When someone in our life dies … everyone else [in our life] is grieving the same person, but they have a different relationship with that person,” says Weingarten. “Even though we’re grieving the same individual, what we’re missing about that person might be radically different. So engaging in conversations with others and talking about what you miss about that person can be really powerful, because we can learn about the people we loved after they are gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many more great TV shows centered on this subject, from HBO’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hbo.com/six-feet-under\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Six Feet Under\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and ABC’s \u003ca href=\"https://abc.com/shows/a-million-little-things\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>A Million Little Things\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to Amazon’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Undone-Season-1/dp/B07SQB8LQ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \u003cem>Undone\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and Netflix’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80179190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Never Have I Ever\u003c/em>. \u003c/a>Even classic good guys like Harry Potter, Batman and Superman were forged into heroes by the crucible of grief, rebounding from the deaths of their parents to become forces for justice. 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But there’s a wide range of shows mining the subject, featuring grief and grieving characters centrally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, it’s counterintuitive to typical TV development, which focuses on likable characters viewers want inside their homes—grieving characters can be unlikable and difficult to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holly Daniels, a former actress (\u003cem>House\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Castle)\u003c/em>, now has a doctorate in psychology and serves as Managing Director of Clinical Affairs for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.camft.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. 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But experts say there is also a catharsis in watching someone struggle with feelings you are having—it’s also one of the most powerful dynamics that binds us to television—and there is a lot about grief and grieving that today’s TV shows get right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s my list of the best TV shows that depict grief these days, along with a little analysis from the experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hbo.com/i-know-this-much-is-true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>I Know This Much Is True\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> (HBO)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/U4KBGydqlVk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/U4KBGydqlVk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In this miniseries, based on a Wally Lamb novel, Mark Ruffalo gives anguished, emotional performances as two people; twin brothers, Dominick and Thomas. Though the first episode features Thomas committing a horrific act while struggling with mental illness, it is Dominick we see constantly suffering from grief—pushing away friends and family members after the loss of his mother, his baby, his marriage and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, Dominick seems the brother most in need of help, as his twin’s commitment to an institution sends him into a spiral of anger, self-loathing, guilt and anxiety that lasts years. In the miniseries, Dominick’s ex-wife, girlfriend, best friend and stepfather all step back in the wake of his blistering anger; for viewers, it makes watching the middle episodes of the miniseries a challenge as we plunge deeper into his dark world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Experts say:\u003c/strong> “Grief is really messy; it can be a lot of tangled emotions, positive and negative, over many months or many years,” says Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, a physician who also was an executive producer of \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80210691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>End Game\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> a Netflix documentary short about end of life issues. “Anxiety is the missing stage of grief that nobody talks about, but so many people are feeling right now. Giving ourselves permission to feel that can be really therapeutic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80998491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>After Life \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>(Netflix)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/eIGGKSHMQOM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/eIGGKSHMQOM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Ricky Gervais plays a more depressed and suicidal version of himself as Tony Johnson, features editor for a small community newspaper, who is drowning in grief after his beloved wife dies of breast cancer. At first, he plans to kill himself, then copes by doing whatever he wants—often lobbing insults at those around him, as only Gervais can—as a way of punishing the world. But when others try to help him, his attitude changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Experts say:\u003c/strong> “This show does a really good job of not sugarcoating his grief,” says Weingarten of the Our House Center. “It shows that he is angry, sad, and at moments wants to end his life. 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Her life improves when she meets Judy Hale, played by Linda Cardellini, another widow at a grief support group who becomes a fast and close friend. But (spoiler alert!) when Jen learns that Judy isn’t exactly who she says she is, their relationship changes. In the second season, which debuted recently, Jen is still struggling to control her anger as their roles switch and she is forced to hide a terrible secret from Judy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Experts say:\u003c/strong> “You want to make sure you’re not putting pressure on yourself in the early stages of grief to see silver linings or find meaning or do work to make yourself a better person,” says Daniels, noting the pressure on Applegate’s character to improve during support group meetings. “If you’re in the angry phase or you’re in the ‘Everybody leave me alone, I need some space’ phase, that’s okay too. Just by showing us how these characters are feeling and letting us see that, without someone jumping in to fix it right away, is a huge help to a lot of people. … It really can be a comfort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbc.com/this-is-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>This Is Us\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> (NBC)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/RxORiOOrE8I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/RxORiOOrE8I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>NBC’s super-successful family drama centers on three grown siblings—two biological and one adopted—born on the same day. But the show depicts them at different times in their lives—as tweens, teens and adults—slowly revealing that much of the series’ storylines are centered on how the siblings have been affected across the breadth of their lives by the death of their father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Experts say:\u003c/strong> “That’s a show people at the [Our House Grief] Center talk about a lot … [because] we grieve not just for the current moment, we grieve for the future we planned with the person who died,” says Weingarten. “Every time there’s an event that you expected that person to [attend], there will be some grief involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sorryforyourloss/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Sorry For Your Loss \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>(Facebook Watch)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ajPHIp-ZgfA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ajPHIp-ZgfA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>This under-the-radar series is probably the best original show Facebook has produced yet for its Watch platform. \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> franchise star Elizabeth Olsen plays Leigh Shaw, a young widow who left her job writing an advice column to move in with her mother and sister after her husband dies. 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"content": "\u003cp>ABC may believe it has faced down some criticism by naming Matt James as the first black man to star in its dating “reality TV” franchise \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em>. But its challenge in dismantling the show’s racist and sexist elements has only begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My longtime criticism of the \u003cem>Bachelor\u003c/em> franchise speaks to the heart of the show’s design. It is a princess fantasy, built around the idea of a woman finding fulfillment by landing the perfect man, filtered through an upper-middle class, predominantly white lens. 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