It’s wokewashing.

The more diverse you make your cast, the more immune you are to criticism when your product flops.

If the show was less diverse and flopped they couldn’t play the racism card to wipe reviews and churn up sympathetic media.

I'm not sure. The counter argument is, would there be as much review bombing had the cast been all white with main characters as men?

And I think no, there wouldn't have been as much. It still wouldn't be rocking a 9/10, but I don't believe it would have gotten as much review bombed.

I feel the truth is a bit in the middle, people are more critical and harsh on shows that also have more diversity, there's a lot more scrutiny on them. That doesn't mean the show can't be bad, but it does make the criticism a lot more difficult to navigate.

The difference in these scenarios is whether to use diversity as a means to an end, or that diversity naturally fits the expectations held by people of all races, given the nearest period and setting in human history depicted where fantasy is drawing from.

The issue is that it was forced/selected, and the cast members who championed diversity in their interviews made it extremely clear this was the case through their remarks around self-proclaimed activism, which lends itself to the poor reviews.

People are tired of identity politics influencing their entertainment, which they are trying to use to avoid said politics. Naturally, viewers are rubbed the wrong way when a show presents itself as a medium for subtle activism in a time when racial tensions and identity politics are at the forefront because racial differences are being forcefully minimized in favor of a singular prescribed globalist posture, while some groups are being verbally abused and humiliated on public television, late night comedy shows, in our elected offices, and on well-funded talk shows on the regular -- as all of these establishments laugh together while they publicly dehumanize white folks (and brown folks who see through their BS).

This is what we have on our hands, and it's unwelcome.

All well deserved imho. It is a wax museum of a show.

I swear a lot of Amazon stuff just looks so bland it might as well be AI-generated. "It is a wax museum of a show" is the best wording for that!

I wonder if someday people will invent giving something the lowest possible rating and then not telling the truth about why they’re giving it their rating?

…nah.

How do you tell the difference?

On an individual basis, you can’t. That’s the reason for doing it. But en masse, if there’s a whole bunch of people complaining about the race of the cast before it airs, and then immediately after it airs a whole bunch of 1-star reviews appear like clockwork, then it’s not hard to draw the line between the two. It’s not the first time people have review-bombed things they don’t like, and it won’t be the last time. All they can do now is complain “how dare you not let me review bomb this show!” until the next target appears.

Does that translate to 1 out of 10 stars, though, or are the 1 stars with these generic reviews still just a form of brigading?

Edit: lol, sorry for questioning the bad-faith 1-star reviews, keep down voting

Isn't that just fair grade inflation. Either 5 or 1 star so either 10 or 1 out of 10.

What?