by dfreely » Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:56 pm
I don't remember this show being particularly racist.. it probably benefited from some of the double standards that a lot of black shows use, but nothing out of the ordinary. It was a good show though, and would probably still be airing if it was on a network that actually cared about it.
osiris wrote:Actually, there were. Not many, and I can only think of one prominent one: Ross/Joey's girlfriend Charlie. I think they had Gabrielle Union in it at one point too. People did in fact complain in the early seasons that there weren't any. Charlie wasn't written as a "black character", they just cast a black actress.
There definitely were some complaints about the absence of black people on Friends. If I remember correctly, Aisha Tyler (Charlie) was hired basically as a direct response to those complaints. I always felt like she was a miscast for that character.
I don't remember this show being particularly racist.. it probably benefited from some of the double standards that a lot of black shows use, but nothing out of the ordinary. It was a good show though, and would probably still be airing if it was on a network that actually cared about it.
[quote="osiris"]Actually, there were. Not many, and I can only think of one prominent one: Ross/Joey's girlfriend Charlie. I think they had Gabrielle Union in it at one point too. People did in fact complain in the early seasons that there weren't any. Charlie wasn't written as a "black character", they just cast a black actress.[/quote]
There definitely were some complaints about the absence of black people on Friends. If I remember correctly, Aisha Tyler (Charlie) was hired basically as a direct response to those complaints. I always felt like she was a miscast for that character.
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