Why the ****** would a civil rights film showing black people being hose piped started to melt her heart? She used to torture and murder them continuously, but put it on telly with a gospel hit over the top and she sees the error of her ways? Bit ridiculous.
Good episode though, and it's really set up for some fireworks when it returns.
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like I get they wanted a powerful scene but that was just stupid. If they really wanted to show her softening up, it should have taken a lot more actual interactions with Queenie and the Voodoos and black people in general. There's actually an undeniable racist undertone to this season itself and this episode in particular that revealed the producers'/writers'/society's prejudices in that EVERY black character bar Laveau was slain without so much as knowing their names aside from Queenie and Laveau and maybe some random hairdresser who did nothing. And OMG at Queenie and Laveau (Queenie especially bc cmon) not being in the titles is just ridiculous.
I know it's called "Coven" but I would have loved to have explored the Voodoo side maybe um... a little bit? Instead, the black characters were used as nameless pawns to ultimately develop the storylines of white people. Laveau better get some depth and backstory in the next few episodes (which I believe she will) or else this show is just really racist and that sucks because Asylum was all about tearing down prejudices and even helped warm my homophobic mother's crusty heart
Last edited by swinearefine; 12-12-2013 at 07:08 PM.
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