I love the comic (obviously), so I was pretty nonplussed when I heard they were going to make a shitty TV show about it.

I watched a couple episodes, and was pretty bored. It is clearly a show written for critics and not audiences, and is basically tailor made to spawn millions of articles like this that are primarily about how "good" the show is because it agrees with the most guilt-ridden politics of the average white, millennial-ish internet critic.

The whole point is to show that America has an ugly racial past, something we all already knew. But when this gets boring, it jumps right into silly sci-fi plots, making the first part just seem exploitative and pointless. It's kind of a mess, but not in a good conceptual way.

Watching capitalist entities pretend to be woke to sell shit to woke people who pretend to hate capitalism is becoming tiresome, predictable, and boring

Maybe it's just me, and the fact I grew up in a family that was in the Green Book, and had black neighbors from childhood to when I moved back to the States, but most of the stuff that you find shocking I've known about my whole life, since the days my dad had me on his shoulders to listen to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, speak at the reflection pool.

To you, this stuff might be unknown history, but they actually teach you about it in Canada. It's only Americans that pretend it never happened and isn't still happening.

That said, I thought it was fairly good, with a good mix of characters, and a few easter eggs to keep the fans happy.

I got hooked about 3/4 of the way through the 2nd episode. It's great.

I think the show is pretty fantastic. And despite what #3 says, I don't think most Americans are aware of the past such as the Tulsa massacre. And it's probably a good thing to continue to portray the insidious and evil nature of racism.

Then you have people like #2, who says, "I love the comic (obviously)" and a couple lines later "it jumps right into silly sci-fi plots." As though the original comic was historical fiction? This, of course, is all you need to read: "(It's) basically tailor made to spawn millions of articles like this that are primarily about how "good" the show is because it agrees with the most guilt-ridden politics of the average white, millennial-ish internet critic."

A racist system has prevented people of color being portrayed in three dimensional ways for decades, and now people argue that portraying people of color in three dimensions along with racism is pandering.

@1&2: Oh you two. Sorry this wasn't made with you in mind. Xoxo

Never read the comic, liked the movie, love the show. The truth about us isn't very pretty, is it? For a species for whom survival is such a high priority, we sure don't mind taking it away from others and for all important reasons like skin pigment, religion, or who we like to sex. sigh

Next lifetime I'm going to a different world, one lifetime as a human is more than enough for this old soul.