The Racialicious Entertainment Roundup 1.6-11.13

In Living Color: That In Living Color reboot that you probably didn’t even know existed? It’s officially dead. The legacy of Jennifer Lopez remains untarnished. –KP

Just a quick note on the In Living Color subject: NOOOOOOOOO P.S.: Why weren’t any of us in on this? I feel like any of the Racialicious writers and contributors could write the hell out of some racial comedy. –JL

(Note: The video for our next item has NSFW language)

Stacey Dash Is Normal: This trailer for a new project from Stacey Dash gained some traction after showing up at Funny Or Die earlier this week. And, go fig–it’s not a parody.

No, the former Single Ladies star, most recently seen endorsing Mitt Romney, seems to really be going all-in as the co-creator of this Celebs Behaving Badly comedy. There’s no release date, or even a proposed airing venue, announced yet. But hey, it’s a wide world for webseries these days. So it might attract some viewers. –AG

Girls: Yeah, we have to talk about this again. We live in a world where we have to wait a full year for a new episode of Boardwalk Empire, but Girls rolls around every six months.

This season, starting Sunday, brings us Black Republican Sandy, played by Donald Glover. According to a review in The New Republic, Glover’s character is different than other brown add-ins after diversity complaints directed at popular (and very white) shows. Supposedly, unlike the “pasted in plots” that other PoC additions have given shows in the past (she cites Ayisha Tyler and Gabrielle Union on Friends, specifically), Sandy’s presence gives the show “some amped-up self-awareness” that it apparently needed.

I haven’t seen the premiere yet myself, but I’m very wary of the assertion that this response of character-adding is any different. “Glover’s arc on the show is brief,” the review continues, “but he is key to illustrating the limited scope of Hannah’s experience.” That seems to tell me all I need to know. Glover will be there for a few episodes. He’ll give Lena Dunham’s Hannah a mini, non-impactful lesson on racism, and vanish with a tip of his hat. It’s a brief moment of supposed self-awareness (none of the dialogue between Sandy and Hannah cited in the article is particularly mind-blowing), but will it stick? Joe and I will be watching to find out for you.

(And of course, this also leaves us with the tiresome possibility of having to devote time to discussing Lena Dunham discussing interracial dating. Yikes.) –KP

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