can you recommend a cool drama that has PoC and doesn't suck?
That depends on how many POC you want and what your definition of “suck” is.
These are the ones I can think of with POC as leads or close supporting roles that I think are the least problematic:
EMPIRE. The Fosters, The Flash, Scandal (though iffy), Grey’s Anatomy, HTGAWM (... also iffy), Agents of Shield (sigh...), OITNB, Doctor Who season 3 (ifffffyy), Elementary!!, The 100, Sleepy Hollow (getting better apparently), Teen Wolf (!!), The Walking Dead (iffy), Jane the Virgin (though I haven’t watched all of it).
That’s what I can think of looking at a compilation of shows I have saved. There are others, they’re just hard to find.
And if I put “iffy” it’s because the show has more problems and/or doesn’t always treat the POC as well as it should.
I welcome my fellow mods to help me out on this. Unfortunately the only shows that are going to do a good job of representing POC are the ones like Empire and The Fosters, as well as a couple others where there is a POC lead and the writers didn’t fuck it up horribly. But in these cases, POC are fleshed out and have important roles and are not subjected to ridiculous racism.
And I realize this list isn’t perfect given how iffy most of the shows are but for the most part.............yeah. At least with Empire, The Fosters, Elementary, Flash and OITNB black people aren’t constantly getting killed. Or at all. So that’s. Something. I’m sorry this wasn’t very helpful.
