I still have Hulu pretty much due to the fact that they have a good library of older shows, and I'm currently watching NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues. On one of the commercials they were showing an upcoming FX or Hulu adaptation of Great Expectations. I jokingly thought to myself where are the black people, and right on queue there was a black woman. I love British literature and for some reason have always been into British stuff. I read Great Expectations in 8th grade and plan on doing a reread sometime this year, but it is really sad to see what has become of the BBC. They used to be the pinnacle of programming (especially for a fan of murder mystery like me) but now you can definitely see everything wrong with diversity quotas. Also, I know that the white population in the UK is larger than America so it makes it even more ridiculous that they have to go along with the mindset that "everything has to be in everything". It is pointless to ask why they can't make original shows because they seem to get pleasure out of crapping on great literature from the past and injecting the typical leftist garbage. A few years back there was a show called Luthor where Idris Elba played a London detective that was good, so original content is possible.

I'm sure this will get high praise by the usual worthless gen-z critics (not all gen-z are bad of course) but what is really annoying is all the gaslighting that goes on around the representation/diversity nonsense. I know a lot of young people go through a phase where they think nothing happened before they were aware of things but this is ridiculous. Black Panther marketing acted like black people were never in movies or Captain Marvel acted like it was the first female led movie ever. I remember when I used to argue on reddit, someone posted a stupid article promoting diversity and how white people won't give anything that doesn't show white people a chance. I asked the poster how old he was, and he was in his early 20s (this was around 2019) and I asked him if that was the case then why were The Cosby Show, Family Matters, Fresh Prince, Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, etc. pretty popular with white audiences or look at Eddie Murphy in the 80s. He said I was being ignorant and then blocked me.

Ironically the excessive push with the diversity/representation in entertainment makes me less likely to watch stuff. If I see a female or black lead my first assumption is that it will be the usual talking points unless someone I trust recommends it. This is why my rule of thumb is to be very wary of anything made after 2014.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. Thank goodness I have a massive mountain of books at my place. May come in handy one day.