For anyone who wanted to watch Grand Army on Netflix
“Tried to underpay the LatinX writer who just won an Emmy meanwhile creator had never worked in tv b4 but the 3 of us had.”
When one user asked why TV series with Black leads are often “depressing”, Peiffer responded: “Because the show runner wouldn’t listen to the 3 writers of colour, of which I am one, including the Black writer who kept asking to not make her storyline poverty porn.
“When we tried to change the story we were psychologically abused and all quit.” (source)
Keep in mind this is what happens to Black and brown people in production and what goes behind tokenistic ‘representation’ in predominantly white and white-written shows. Including your favourite ones.
