just a little mushroom

it's not about Armand as a character, he isn't real as much as i care abt him, it's about ASSAD ZAMAN who is an actual person with a career that AMC consistently does nothing to further and actually actively underserves/ excludes from promotion while most of his castmates careers are very evidently taking off or seeing a ressurgence from iwtv press and trailers and nominations. His name was left off the fucking website!!! He wasn't nominated for his performance in S2E5 even though that episode was critically lauded!!! He's consitently left out of press and events!!! It IS racist to say it was more "strategic" to nominate his white cast member who had a fraction of his screen time. It IS racist to not mention him in articles about the show and AMCs racism DOES impact a real breathing South Asian actor who's at a critical point in his career. It IS racist to say TVL isn't Armand's season so it makes sense to sideline and neglect ASSAD. Stop telling us it isn't blatant fucking islamophobia and racism!! Stop making excuses for AMC!!