I watched the pilot for Dear White People and loved it. It evokes the spirit of its source material (2014 film of the same name) while fleshing out its characters more thoroughly. It's clever, thoughtful and funny, and while it doesn't go out of its way to orient its narrative around its white characters, there are sympathetic, nuanced portrayals of white students (protagonist Sam's boyfriend Gabe). I'd go as far as to say the show treats its white characters more thoughtfully than many Hollywood productions treat their characters of color.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I got on this site only to find the show sporting a 3.9 rating (for reference, CBS's Kevin James vehicle "Kevin Can Wait" has a 6.0 rating). For a show with a 100% positive critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes, this seems low. Why would IMDb users tank the show's rating? I can't imagine the reason. Probably doesn't have anything to do with the reactive #boycottNetflix twitter campaign that sparked after the show was announced. Or with the way sexist trolls flooded the site to tank the rating for last year's Ghostbusters reboot before the film's wide release. Nope, it must have be the quality of the show itself, which, again, has been hailed by critics. Huh.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I got on this site only to find the show sporting a 3.9 rating (for reference, CBS's Kevin James vehicle "Kevin Can Wait" has a 6.0 rating). For a show with a 100% positive critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes, this seems low. Why would IMDb users tank the show's rating? I can't imagine the reason. Probably doesn't have anything to do with the reactive #boycottNetflix twitter campaign that sparked after the show was announced. Or with the way sexist trolls flooded the site to tank the rating for last year's Ghostbusters reboot before the film's wide release. Nope, it must have be the quality of the show itself, which, again, has been hailed by critics. Huh.