The Racialicious Entertainment Roundup: Nov. 10-22
We still don’t know who’s taking care of this poor kid. At one point, in the beginning of the season, she’s shown sitting alone in her house, still traumatised over the events from last season with no guardian to speak of.
Her (white) friends are gaining all kinds of power left and right (and angsting over it), while Bonnie has seemingly sacrificed the use of her witchy abilities after using them to save Elena and company over and over again. (Remember, last season her mother was turned into a vampire, also because of Elena.) What’s more, she keeps making sacrifices, big and small, for this group of–frankly horrible–friends. I just about died when Elena and Damon announced that they were crashing Bonnie’s trip to collect her dead grandmother’s possessions for their own personal needs and finally fell out when I realised that no one had asked Bonnie once how she was feeling throughout the whole trip. The trip that was supposed to be focused around her dead grandmother.
That plotline did lead to a potential romantic entangle for Bonnie that I wanted to be excited about (since, because Bonnie’s life just bites, none of her romantic interests ever work out), until it was revealed that the character (a college professor) is most likely some kind of evil. Bonnie Bennett, eternal sacrificial Black Best Friend and Magical Negro, cannot catch a break.
We’ll tackle Connor, the angriest and most violent Black man Mystic Falls, Virginia’s seen since 1865, in another post.–KJ
Jarod Joseph as Billy on “Once Upon A Time.”
Once Upon a Time: I just wanted to point out that a week after I noted how swiftly OUAT is offing their characters of color, another one was re-introduced and killed within the span of an episode.
RIP Billy, a.k.a Gus the Mouse from Cinderella. You withstood over 50 years of being locked away in the Disney Vault, only to have network television do you in. You deserved better.–KJ
666 Park Avenue: Unfortunately, Vanessa Williams’ new show has been cancelled by ABC (along with Andre Bauer’s Last Resort). They’re not having much luck in the Sunday night lineup department, as this cancellation follows last year’s mid-season cutoffs of Pan Am and GCBs. The show was on the bubble before Hurricane Sandy heavily damaged their NYC sets, and it looks as if ABC decided to cut their losses rather than invest even more into the show.
An optimist might point out that Vanessa Williams and co star Terry O’Quinn are network favorites, so they’ll likely be back on the air soon. Still, it’s sad to see yet another fun Sunday night soap opera fizz out before having the chance to find its legs.–KJ
Major spoilers for this next item. You have been warned.
(L-R) “Misfits” cast members Karla Crome, Joseph Gilgun, Nathan McMullen, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. Via cultflix.co.uk.
Misfits: Around halfway thru this season’s fourth episode, I wanted to write something about the quiet equity the show had come around to granting both PoC characters. And then the episode finished.
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