told to play basketball

Gwen is a black woman playing this iconic british folklore character, and she gets to be a kind and gentle person who is the object of desire for the male lead, and there's a hell of a lot less examples of that happening in media than two white gay men kissing.

Now I am talking from a point of western/british media and I know there are different nuanced depending on where you hail from in the world.

But this proved to me that my biggest problem with dingles in recent times other than there being egregious amounts of them is that they just haven't been dingle enough

They've consistently had this reputation as nuisances and criminals, that i feel like they hadn't been living up to for the past few years.

But the hillbilly-esque, living life by their own way, was what made them initially interesting.

All the families prior to them (at least to my memory) were village families who had drama behind closed doors but would try to conceal the drama to keep up with a facade.

But the dingles were public nuisances and bragging about it. That was their appeal.