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“Really disheartening episode. This episode makes it clear how cultural critics gloss over and delegitimizes the work done by latinxs on this film. The film of course shouldn’t be the only Puerto Rican representation. Latinxs still do not get hired in Hollywood outside of comedic and action narratives that often play on stereotypes and cliches. To not interview anyone in the industry itself, nor the performers who fought for the exact arguments made in this episode while making the film, nor to discuss any of the art itself but only its potential impact, robs this discussion of furthering the conversation past ideas repeated again and again on this show about representation without any nuance that the performers fought hard for. One of the actors left the industry due to lack of roles. It is a desert for us performers and to not even discuss our work as its own progress made this episode feel like an echo chamber to those of us working in the field. There was so much work done by performers to do exactly what is mentioned in this episode when we are constantly denied agency. Watch more than the trailer before you critique something. It is almost impossible to get anything made in Hollywood or theater about our communities because producers are overwhelmingly white, cis, straight and male. And yes, Kushner met with academics at Hunter, did research for months in the archives there, Spielberg went to Puerto Rico and met with community leaders. Poorly researched episode lacking nuance. And yes I agree with the arguments made. But are we just going to spend decades repeating ourselves?”
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United States of America ·
12/21/21
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“I was very disappointed with the Puerto Rico episode making fun of Trump. There ARE Puerto Ricans that support Trump and/or are Republican. Very disappointed. Written by: a Puerto Rican raised in the island and even graduated from the iupi, who now lives in the states.”
madisonknj via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/25/16
“I am liberal Democrat and am emphatically anti-Trump. I found In The Thick because I wanted to expand my perspective and finding a point of view from a POC viewpoint was both welcome and refreshing. When I think of America, I think of the melting pot, inclusive, working toward fixing injustice,...”Read full review »
AbstractJames via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/02/17
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