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1. The Racialicious Roundtable For Flash Forward 1.8 Posted 19 Nov 2009 under diversity, tv

   Hosted by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García Maybe we’re just bad luck. I mean, you saw what happened to Heroes on the Roundtable’s watch. Now comes word that Flash Forward is slipping, ratings-wise. If I’d known about this effect sooner I would’ve started convening Glee roundtables. Just kidding, Mahsino! But, anyway, dear readers, what do you make [...]

2. Who Is the Haitian? Posted 17 Nov 2009 under celebrities, tv

   by Latoya Peterson Arise Magazine has an interview with Jimmy Jean-Louis. Jean-Louis, a model/dancer/actor is best known stateside for portraying “The Haitian” in Heroes. From what I can remember of the Heroes recaps, quite a bit of the snarking revolved around the shrinking role of PoC on the show and the falling ratings. So [...]

3. The Racialicious Roundtable For Flash Forward 1.5 Posted 29 Oct 2009 under diversity, tv

   Hosted by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García Two weeks without Heroes and yours truly still feels great. But as the Roundtable will explain, watching “Gimme Some Truth,” it’s becoming more apparent that Flash Forward is beating Heroes at some of its’ own strengths – even if Mark Bedford there looks like a bit of a weenie [...]

4. Because You Demanded It: The Racialicious Roundtable For Flash Forward Posted 22 Oct 2009 under diversity, tv

   Hosted By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García [Writer's note: What happened to Heroes, you ask? Stay tuned next week, True Believers. Now, let's roll with the new ...] The most amazing thing about Flash Forward? Not the Blackout. Not the crows falling from the sky. Not the diverse array of visions being assembled in the Mosaic. Not [...]

5. Meet Rebecca: The Racialicious Review for Heroes 4.5 Posted 19 Oct 2009 under diversity, tv

   By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García SPOILER ALERT There goes the neighborhood: for the first time in what feels like ages, three POC characters were directly involved in the key goings-on in Heroes – and all of them lived! At the center of the big twist, including the salvaging of what Roundtable member x called the Claire Gone [...]

6. Notes from the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors Posted 16 Oct 2009 under Uncategorized, hip hop, tv

   By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García Public Enemy |Public Enemy Video |The Roots |Hip Hop I watched the Hip-Hop Honors pay tribute to Def Jam Records for the same reason I bought the Def Jam anniversary box set: sometimes you just need some old school, right? Here’s some scattered thoughts: * Tracy Morgan couldn’t have been less [...]

7. The Racialicious Roundtable For Heroes 4.4 Posted 13 Oct 2009 under diversity, race, tv

   By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García You know it’s sad when even the good episodes of Heroes spur a lukewarm response. Somewhat amazingly, there’s actually a campaign going to save the show from cancellation – no, really. More tellingly, even the little bits of good on the show don’t hold much water anymore, as we’ll see [...]

8. Do The Wrong Thing: The Racialicious Review for ‘Heroes’ 4.4 Posted 08 Oct 2009 under diversity, race, tv

   By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García Finally, Fuller, not filler. Could you tell it was Bryan Fuller writing “Acceptance”? What was your first tip-off? The lack of boredom or the narratives that actually moved people along in recognizable characterization? It’s too soon to call this a turning point, but at least we got to jump into this [...]

9. Rock Bottom: The Racialicious Review of ‘Heroes’ 4.3 Posted 05 Oct 2009 under diversity, race, tv

   By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García “Ink”? The way this week’s episode slogged along, it was more like molasses. The story, such as it was, mostly revolved around the Delusional Duo: Claire and Peter, who each found themselves being courted and, as usual, fell for it. In Claire’s case, not only did she tell the increasingly creepy [...]

10. The Racialicious Roundtable For ‘Heroes’ 4.1 + 4.2 Posted 29 Sep 2009 under Uncategorized, diversity, race, tv

    Hosted by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García Why does Ando look so shocked? Probably because he saw the ratings. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Heroes placed fourth in its’ time slot, with a 46 percent drop in viewership from the Season 3 premiere. Start the deathwatch! Meanwhile, the Roundtable invites you to join us in wishing a fond [...]

11. Identity Crises: The Racialicious Review of ‘Heroes’ 4.1 + 4.2 Posted 25 Sep 2009 under diversity, race, tv

    By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García Heroes’ season premiere was two hours long. It only felt like four. While accomplishing what it set out to do on a technical level, “Orientation” and “Jump, Push, Fall” failed the series’ most important objective: doing so while making the series seem fresh again. Instead, we got yet another lumbering opening [...]

12. In Sylar They Trust: The Racialicious Roundtable vs. Heroes & the Fall TV Season Posted 21 Sep 2009 under diversity, tv

    Hosted by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García Heroes begins its’ fourth season Monday night in the throes of identity crises on- and off-screen: the show’s name doesn’t really fit anymore – almost none of the titular core cast wants to be “special” anymore, let alone superheroic – and its’ most important plotline centers around Sylar, a [...]

13. Crazy From The Heat: The End Of Summer TV Roundup Posted 03 Sep 2009 under diversity, hip hop, latino, music, race, tv

    By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García These have truly been depressing days. Bad enough that the past few weeks of summer television hasn’t given us anything to rave about. But not even the bad stuff was inspiring – there was nothing that brought out the sweet, bileful taste of anger. So thank you, Fox, for bringing Glee [...]

14. In McDonald’s New Japanese Ad Campaign, The Wacky Foreigner Joke’s on Americans Posted 01 Sep 2009 under asian, media, race & representations, racism, white

    by Guest Contributor Jen, originally published at Disgrasian Put on your glasses or pop in your contacts and get a good look at the picture below, because this is what karma looks like: Meet “Mr. James,” new face of a McDonald’s ad campaign in Japan. Mr. James is a Wacky Foreigner in Japan who speaks broken [...]

15. The Racialicious Pre Comic-Con Notebook Posted 22 Jul 2009 under comics, diversity, film, movies, tv

    By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García To horribly mangle The Beatles’ words, picture yourself in this hallway, on a hot July day – surrounded by more than 150,000 male and female geeks in all assortment of accoutrements. Welcome to my weekend in the world’s biggest Jiffy-Pop. If you were only able to score tix for one [...]