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‘Hunger Games’ Alum Lands ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Arc (Exclusive)
A Hunger Games alum is heading to Sleepy Hollow. Amandla Stenberg, who starred as Rue in the 2012 box-office juggernaut, will recur on the breakout Fox drama as Orlando Jones’ daughter, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.I wouldn’t normally commentate on a news piece, but how excited are you for this on a scale of 1 to you broke the actual scale?!?!?!
‘Hunger Games’ Alum Lands ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Arc (Exclusive)
A Hunger Games alum is heading to Sleepy Hollow. Amandla Stenberg, who starred as Rue in the 2012 box-office juggernaut, will recur on the breakout Fox drama as Orlando Jones’ daughter, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.I wouldn’t normally commentate on a news piece, but how excited are you for this on a scale of 1 to you broke the actual scale?!?!?!
But the show is quietly breaking ground (it has yet to crack five million viewers) with one of the most ethnically diverse casts on broadcast television. Samberg’s star detective is a goofball but skilled investigator whose two bosses are black men—one of whom is gay—and two of his detective peers are Latinas. In the same way that ensemble dramas like “ER,” “Lost” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” paved the way for multiculturalism without tokenism, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” defies stereotypical comedic expectations and finds the humor in humanity—not skin color or ethnic background or sexual preference.
NBC News (via itsbrooklyn99)
#PLEASE DON’T GET CANCELLED I SWEAR I WILL CRY is a million percent accurate commentary
(via yuuki-wo-tsubasa)
This is really interesting to me because of the new comedies this season, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is consistently the funniest, so both the best new comedy and new drama (Sleepy Hollow) are being praised for their diversity, and yet, that’s not why I’m watching them. They aren’t coasting on having more PoC, they’re just plain good. And they’re absolutely proving wrong all those people who would claim that having PoC leads makes everything about race or that all the white-dominated shows just had the “best actors for the job”.
I think where Brooklyn 99 failed in bringing in its audience was its marketing; I went in expecting Samberg to be the typical annoying white male lead who gets away with everything by showing he’s smarter than everyone else and/or has his heart in the right place, and yeah, there’s a bit of that, but it’s so much more. I really did not think I would like it at all, let alone this much.
But the show is quietly breaking ground (it has yet to crack five million viewers) with one of the most ethnically diverse casts on broadcast television. Samberg’s star detective is a goofball but skilled investigator whose two bosses are black men—one of whom is gay—and two of his detective peers are Latinas. In the same way that ensemble dramas like “ER,” “Lost” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” paved the way for multiculturalism without tokenism, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” defies stereotypical comedic expectations and finds the humor in humanity—not skin color or ethnic background or sexual preference.
NBC News (via itsbrooklyn99)
#PLEASE DON’T GET CANCELLED I SWEAR I WILL CRY is a million percent accurate commentary
(via yuuki-wo-tsubasa)
This is really interesting to me because of the new comedies this season, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is consistently the funniest, so both the best new comedy and new drama (Sleepy Hollow) are being praised for their diversity, and yet, that’s not why I’m watching them. They aren’t coasting on having more PoC, they’re just plain good. And they’re absolutely proving wrong all those people who would claim that having PoC leads makes everything about race or that all the white-dominated shows just had the “best actors for the job”.
I think where Brooklyn 99 failed in bringing in its audience was its marketing; I went in expecting Samberg to be the typical annoying white male lead who gets away with everything by showing he’s smarter than everyone else and/or has his heart in the right place, and yeah, there’s a bit of that, but it’s so much more. I really did not think I would like it at all, let alone this much.
Random thoughts from today’s TV:
Ooh, Lauren from The Crazy Ones is gay or bi. Not straight, at least. And it wasn’t a big thing. It probably won’t be a big thing, but it’s something.
Both The Crazy Ones and The Michael J Fox Show had random throwaway jokes referencing Juarez.
Breathless’s main problem is that all the women, especially the wives, Jean, Elizabeth, and Lily, are so much more interesting than the men, but the show focuses on the male doctors and the women only as they’re affected by them.
Random thoughts from today’s TV:
Ooh, Lauren from The Crazy Ones is gay or bi. Not straight, at least. And it wasn’t a big thing. It probably won’t be a big thing, but it’s something.
Both The Crazy Ones and The Michael J Fox Show had random throwaway jokes referencing Juarez.
Breathless’s main problem is that all the women, especially the wives, Jean, Elizabeth, and Lily, are so much more interesting than the men, but the show focuses on the male doctors and the women only as they’re affected by them.
I love how Orlando Jones is actually a hilarious and insightful BNF of his own show.
I love how Orlando Jones is actually a hilarious and insightful BNF of his own show.
