What makes Daybreak different from The Society are two very prominent things that stick out:

Embracing Diversity.

they didn’t purposely turn it into a “small town” so they could make more than half the characters white and everyone who wasn’t white light skin/white-passing and relatable and comfortable for white people. (if you try and argue that the society didn’t do this on purpose, you’re dumb)

not just diversity with POC (which there are a significant amount of including dark skin black characters with three-dimensional personalities and character development which almost never happens in media) but with allowing them to have real personalities. there are characters with flaws, who screw up, who try and atone for their actions. There are characters who embrace their femininity and use it for strength and power. There are characters who were awful before the Apocolypse happened who use it happening to atone for that behavior and change into who they were mean to be. One character specifically who could have held a well-deserved grudge about a certain thing but let it go and offered safe passage. Basically, the characters are allowed to let their personalities be guides for their behavior in the apocalypse instead of the circumstances and fear turns them into sociopaths who kill for power.

It has characters with disabilities but I didn’t include that in the paragraph above cause both of these shows have characters with disabilities that showcase their disabilities respectfully but I also want to point this out because it goes more than half of an episode in silence while characters use sign language to communicate and connect with each other.

The character of Wesley Fists, is great, but honestly I don’t think will resonate or be embraced by white gays because his gayness is intertwined with his blackness and white gays don’t care about that, but as a Bisexual Black man his character hit home in several ways with me and I have never felt more represented on screen. He found a way to be Gay and be Black and find exactly who he is while having struggles with his family about his blackness and his gayness and WE ACTUALLY GET TO SEE IT and it’s in a unique way that’s not stereotypical or completely abusive or overly religious way and we get to see him being in love and make mistakes because he is in love and sidenote also gets to have black boy joy and have fun and smoke weed without fear of police and gets to act like dumb white boys who smoke weed without repercussions so I particularly enjoyed that.

The show is rooted in a fun humorous tone with emotional moments.

which makes the concept better because these characters get to be teens surviving in the apocalypse. They form cliques based on their cliques in high school and the societies that they’ve managed to scrape together based on that are uniquely their own. The show starts off after all of these societies have been formed so we don’t have to see the ugliness of what it took to establish that which I think is what gives them more room for personality and some of the fucking lines are just so cheesy and goofy and ridiculous that it’s funny but the humor is also used to drive characters forward into their development and isn’t a hindrance because there are also these very deep moments and triumph and these kids being kids. There’s this one scene where Angelica gets her period that ends up being this emotional moment where she has to figure it out on her own without her mother or an adult and you just see this scared 13-year-old kid and all the vulnerability and it’s great.

They use the Jocks to be a little sociopathic and mad with power and kinda kill people who betray and get in their way but even THE WAY THEY KILL THEM IS HOW TEENAGERS WOULD PROBABLY KILL PEOPLE IN THAT SITUATION. it’s not political it’s we’ll have this person who betrayed us put on a show like American idol for our entertainment in the form of a play or a musical battle of the bands and if they get a thumbs down they die by boobytrap door that opens up to spikes and goolies that will eat them. They constantly remind you that these are fucking dumbass kids who do dumbass things but are also capable of killing and taking enjoyment from those kills. 

also these kids aren’t drinking the whole time, they aren’t being overly sexualized, they aren’t constantly cursing and trying to kill each other, This has one of the most realistic, awkard sexual situations I have ever seen in my life without sexualizing either of the characters in it and it proves that teenagers in shows don’t have to be like Riverdale teens to be entertaining.

it’s humorous and realistic but still wild as fuck is what i mean. 

There was a third point that I had but I completely forgot what it was but basically, Daybreak is what I wish The Society had been. It took me 2 whole weeks to finish The Society because I had nothing to relate to, it was a show made to satisfy white viewers. With Daybreak the concept is allowed to be fun and have humor and let teenagers be teenagers without all the heavy political dialog but also keeps their character ever-growing and ever-changing and the focus isn’t just on Josh. If gives other characters a voice and their own perspectives and other things and I hope it gets a season two. 

wraith: natalie

wattson: you fucking WISH you were me

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welcome