IN my student days I walked the length and breadth of Washington DC, miles from the Howard University Campus, looking for thrift shops and old…
IN my student days I walked the length and breadth of Washington DC, miles from the Howard University Campus, looking for thrift shops and old record stores hunting for what George Smiley called “treasure”.It would not be too extreme to say I fell in love with DC and I have harboured a substantial grudge over decades about how poorly the district has been represented on television.
You would not know from West Wing fictions but for the vast majority of the 20th century, DC has been a majority African-American city. Aduba as investigator Flowers is the moral heart of the show. She is burnt out, lonely and angry. Unusually for an American drama there is no love interest, no errant child and no domestic story-telling.
Both shows star Viola Davis, the go-to superstar of diversity casting and the woman who has done more than anyone to open Hollywood up to older African-American talent. Much as Trainspotting still stands out as a unique innovation in Scottish popular culture, it has not become a blueprint for wider innovation. There was in many respects a retreat back into familiar storylines and types, many of them tangled with the returning storylines of crime drama.
“My problem was never really drugs,” Krykant argues, “it was societal and drug prohibition just pushed me into more dangerous situations.
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