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No one is questioning my characterization of the one dimensional characters in the show. I've never said the show had to cater to white men exclusively, I merely pointed out that the show had a depiction of racial / gender roles that was very politically charged, and anti-cis/white people, and men in particular. Seriously, the only positive male figures in that show were FN men, and there were no examples of negative figures that were FN. The only minority woman that was presented in a slightly negative way, was the asian nurse -- who was still competent at her job, even if she was portrayed as greedy and self-centered. The non-FN men didn't even get to be competent, they got to be incompetent, stupid, and/or villains.

Like if you wanted to add some depth / nuance to those characters, without being so one sided? Have the resentment that you're expressing here, made manifest in the FN people in the show. There's a very brief exchange at one point early on in the series, where I think Harry shows up at the res unescorted, and the FN people there basically stonewall / ignore him. It's glossed over in like 10 seconds, and then they act like it's all good. Asta's abandoning of her daughter with a healthy and supportive home life is a story element that's really forced. Have Asta's backstory altered so that it's not some deadbeat white guy trailer trash that she hooked up with as a kid -- have it be that she had a regular teenage cis white guy as a partner, one who could've just moved out of town. You could've had him die in an accident off screen, and potentially made the doctor who came back to replace Harry (briefly, before getting sent to Area 51 to get ass raped by the govt or whatnot) be the guys older brother, but make him less of a condescending fop. Asta realising who he was later on, especially given how nonchalantly she and the town shrug off his disappearance, and what comes out about how his life went afterwards, would add depth -- like those two kids basically had that guy's life ruined as an afterthought, with pretty well zero remorse or curiosity from ppl in town -- and the audience is encouraged to empathize/forgive the evil chick in the govt that did it, because she had some daddy issues that she wanted to time travel to fix. You could justify Asta giving her daughter up because she felt strongly that her family on the res wouldn't accept a white guy / baby (you don't even need to make it an explicit rejection, just one she internalised / acted on based on the lowkey resentment towards white people). Keep a passive aggressive dialogue structure between the FN people and the white people that Asta brings on to the res -- cause generally, in reality, they're tolerated but not accepted, because of all that history/resentment (that we're seeing even in this generally neutral commentary on the show). Have that resentment be more explicit in any dialogue with older FN. Keep Asta's grandad as a more neutral positive progressive figure who's just a hard workin guy, who values his culture/traditions, who loves his daughter and accepts her no matter what, even if some in the community still harbour all this resentment. He could even have more complex relations with the band, if he'd been made aware of the reasons for Asta giving up her daughter after the fact -- a backstory component where he'd realised the constant simmering racism on the res had hurt his daughter and cost him a direct relationship with his grand-daughter, and while he recognised/accepted the anger felt he had to move past it by opening the diner outside the res and integrating more with the town. He could basically have a vested interest at that point, for being a role model for the youth on the res, putting him respectfully / politely at odds with the more racist older folks on the res. His relationship with Harry could've been far different too, if he'd first viewed him as a potential 'new' white-boy suitor that his daughter was interested in -- that'd even provide comic opportunities, as he'd be completely thrown by Harry acting in an alien fashion / unpredictable fashion compared to what he expects of a white guy, causing him to question his own preconceptions even further, at least until he finds out the truth. From what I recall, the way they handled this stuff in the show, it really didn't make sense why Asta would've given up her daughter - and it especially didn't make sense given how they portray all the people in the community / family around her as being ultra/unequivocally supportive. It isn't all light in reality, for an adult-theme oriented drama you need to have some shades of dark to make it more interesting / engaging and insightful.

For the super smart outspoken muslim girl, you've literally got stories in the news frequently about muslim women being killed by their families for having tiktok on their phones and/or being too western minded. The show's got her out running around in the middle of the night with a young boy with no supervision, while still pretending like she's a devout muslim girl. Dig into that more. Lots of muslim women present a devout/submissive image to their parents, but at school they are far more liberal / westernized -- I'm sure I'm not alone in having known girls in HS who would change out of their religious garb for class, not because they'd get bullied or anythin, but because they wanted to be free to express themselves. Women in Iran, before the religious dictatorship took over, happily dressed in western styles while still following the general tenants of the faith / thinking of themselves as muslim. There's lots of talk in the media about how school shouldn't narc on kids for things like pronouns, but the religious stuff is also part of that conversation -- given that the boy she's running around with, is also the son of a teacher (or was she the principle? I don't remember atm, sorta moot) at the school, you could've played with that theme a bunch. Even if the parents may be accepting if she were to discuss it with them directly, she could still have inner turmoil/conflicts about it all. Heck, you could've even pulled a story practically directly out of the news and worked it in for "why she came back" to town after goin off to a prestigious school -- her mother could've been mis-appropriating a FN identity to get scholarships/funding to go to that program, she could've been exposed, and the kids scholarships cancelled as a result. She could've ended up with more interesting internal conflicts/character, by being conflicted by both the unethical behaviour of her parent towards FN, but also at being denied the opportunity just because she wasn't the 'right' minority race. Presenting that kid the way they did in the show, is a disservice to the struggles of many muslim women -- and there's likely a lot more material there that could be presented in far more interesting ways, even in a weird pseudo-comedy such as this show (I still say the premise/direction and overall flow of the show was disjointed/weird).

I don't have a problem with shows catering to demographics I don't associate with directly. Like I said, I did watch 3 seasons of this thing, even though I recognised early on what it was,. But the writing was one dimensional and lazy, and it got worse and worse as the seasons went on. I'm all for stories that are FN centric, but those stories deserve better writing and presentation than what this show was offering up.