I am not in the least bit racist but Midsomer has become a farce with its token use of black and Asian actors since its controversy.
Agreed and personally I have no problem with ethnic minority characters in MM providing they are legitimate suspects, are the actual murderers on a reasonably regular basis and most important of all: are
plausibly ethnic in relation to their character types.
MM's writers these days though seem to regard their respective guest casts as almost completely interchangeable, which is often ludicrous given the show's rural setting and the characters one would
realistically expect to encounter in such an environment.
Yes, Midsomer is a purely fictional county with an equally fictional homicide rate but it still has to have a
grounding in reality for viewers to regard it as a plausible premise.
The way the producers are insisting on non-white faces in the background and randomly just turning up is so false it is turning the show in to a comedy for all the wrong reasons.
The irony is ITV now likely has to 'bus in' a fair few of its newly strategically diverse 'background artists' whereas before they were probably all locals. Pathetic really and the sheer crudity of it all is so amateurish.
So the new Asian pathologist goes on a course and is replaced by a black doctor who talks like he has just walked off the set of Attack the Block innit.
I've yet to see the last episode of the current series but it rather sounds like I've got a real 'treat' to look forward too with such a character.....
Pleeeeeeeease.............just use actors who fit the part and stop pandering to politically correct race quotas.
Again agreed but fat chance ITV will remedy anything soon given that the channel's seemingly on a mission, nay
crusade to prove to the world they are definitely
not waycist.....even though MM's global audience neither wanted nor required such trite affirmation of divine righteousness anyway.
So sad. So avoidable.
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madseavets
7 years ago
Has there ever been a Polish character? Where I live, they're the largest ethnic minority.
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GladysOver
7 years ago
Has there ever been a Polish character? Where I live, they're the largest ethnic minority.
Hmm, curious, from which rural English village do you hail from then?
Regardless, I fear by implication you
overestimate how 'diversity' is usually defined by your average virtue-signalling/left-leaning telly type.
Indeed one could have a cast boasting a plethora of Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Slovakian et al characters/actors.....but that doesn't qualify as
diverse to the aforementioned telly types because such a cast would still be
white (or "hideously white" if you're Greg Dyke ).
No, diversity =
blackface (not in the Al Jolson sense) and anything less doesn't qualify which is why MM implausibly resembles a f^cking
Benetton commercial these days.
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madseavets
7 years ago
Hmm, curious, from which rural English village do you hail from then?
In Cheshire, which is fairly rural, Polish is the 2nd most common language. Slovakian is 3rd. When there were complaints that Cheshire Constabulary only had a couple of non-white officers, the chief constable said there were very few potential recruits. Somebody then suggested that he brought them in from other areas. So much for local policing!
Regardless, I fear by implication you overestimate how 'diversity' is usually defined by your average virtue-signalling/left-leaning telly type
No, I wasn't really being serious there. I know what you mean. In the real world, I think you would be more likely to come across a Polish builder than an Indian one. But, even in rural England, you would still have found Indian doctors, and Chinese dentists etc..
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