The show has a strong cast and deals with a range of social issues covering race, gender, harrassment that are all relevant to a modern audience.
However sometimes the nature of the controversy and the reactions of the characters is a little too close to petty and bitter.
As an example, a waitress is pressured into licking spillage on a table for a $20,000 tip. And sure it is embarrassing and a bit unprofessional. But its also a silly prank (in bad taste) that is consented to and probably repeated a thousand times for fun at student parties across the world.
In the real world ppl would do a lot more for less. Ppl clean toilets for minimum wage, have sex for $100 and leave their families for many months for jobs that pay less. The central character acts like she has witnessed a rape but she is just living in a spoilt community with bad manners.
And so the show often loses credibility on social issues and devolves into looking like a show made by privileged ppl about their favorite subject...themselves.
And of course, race is always dealt with in the hypocritical American way...every balck person is exploited, every whte person a racist who is guilty of things that happened 100s of years ago...
A black 'comedian' tells her audience 'you all did it (slavery)' and we get a snapshot of the mood in the US for race shaming but this kind of show would never have the courage to say that slavery is a reality for many living in BAME communities today and it is only white communities that are even bothering to take inclusion seriously.
And so we end up with a show that is well made, well acted , but not nearly as current or insightful as it tries to present itself.
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