Asian hospital director back in those times?
Riiiiiiight... 🙄
A goofy and awkward one on top of that.
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Ya, I didn't buy that either. They are pushing today's WOKE ideas into the past. Idjits.
They wouldn't have even let him push a broom.
I think you'd find that Ryan Murphy isn't going for realism here.
In general I get the feeling shows just can't satisfy some people these days. Whatever they do they're considered "too woke". If they acknowledge the racism of the times, like Lovecraft Country, they're criticised for being woke shite. If they ignore the racism and just tell the story, like this show, they're being criticised again for being some sort of PC crap. There's just no pleasing you people.
Or they simply could have cast someone who realistically could have been a hospital director. Problem solved. 🤷
I mean they are doing all these period costumes and cars and stuff, but something like this really takes me out of the story. It's not like there is a dearth of actors.
Once a show establishes that the casting is not going to be period accurate I have no problem with watching people of whatever ethnicity they deside to hire.
This show has many problems, I don't see this being one of them.
You hit the nail on the head.
The race of any actor/nesses is the last thing I am worried about in a show/movie.
Unless their race is a plot point, it really doesnt matter.
Actually, do some research. People think America in the 1950s was this barbaric place where non-white people were locked in basements and never allowed to breathe. Yet, all we hear in modern history classes is how much poc contributed to American culture and history. And, frankly, it's true. I'm not a fan of posturing the way hollywood does these days, but I don't doubt there were hospitals with non-white citizens in charge. Just do a little research (at your local library, skip google because it's obviously biased), you'll be surprised how bizarre the current view of history actually is.
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That he could just be a doctor - yes, sure. That he could be long before 1947.
But never a hospital director.
And with a name "Hannover"? Is Germany now in Asia?
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