'Blindspotting' brings the Bay Area to the world. Locals may be its toughest critics
It’s golden hour and cars are swinging rapturous donuts in a West Oakland intersection as the first episode of Starz’s “Blindspotting” spinoff series, adapted from Daveed Diggs’ and Rafael Casal’s 2018, follows its new protagonist into uncertain terrain: not the conflicted Collin or his hotheaded best friend Miles , but Ashley , Miles’ longtime girlfriend, who must forge ahead and figure things out on her own.
Ashley may not know it yet, but she’s still processing the traumatic experience of having her family ripped apart by the carceral state, not to mention the macro- and microaggressions she endures catering to rich white folks at her day job at a hotel named for San Francisco’s famed tourist-friendly former prison.
“It worked so well, but it worked so well because we incarcerate more people than anywhere in the world,” Diggs said of the dancers, first introduced in prison blues. “Art is useful in a way if you can make it entertaining and also have it point at a thing; it allows us to see the thing. And oftentimes awareness is as far as we can get with a piece of art, but it’s not a small thing. Enough awareness can sometimes beget action.
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