Black gay guy and white guy tv show

I was surprised to turn on a CBS drama this week and discover in the first few minutes of Red Line that it is centered on an interracial gay couple with an adopted Black daughter. It was called Seven Secondsit was bleak as hell, it aired on Netflix, it starred Regina King, and it was about a Black family grieving after their son was shot by a white police officer.

In Red LinePaul — the young cop in question played by Mickey from Shameless — feels some legitimate remorse for shooting the Black doctor, Harrison, and slowly begins to question whether there may have been some unacknowledged racism behind his decision to pull the trigger without first assessing the situation.

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Its heart is in the right place — Ava Duvernay is an exec producer — but much of Red Line is a super clumsy attempt to present a complicated story about race to the older CBS demo who tunes in to see John Carter from E. Noah Wylie plays the grieving husband of the gay Black doctorwhich means there are also several trope-y soap opera hooks used as vehicles for more substantive issues.

Just to make things more Young and the Restlessthe birth mother is a successful Black woman who returned to Chicago to marry a transit cop because she cares about her neighborhood. Meanwhile, the white cop is surrounded with all sorts of elements designed to make you feel sympathy for him a wheelchair-bound brother who was also a cop injured on the job and a loving female cop who stole the security tape to protect her partner.

The effort is appreciated, but by burning it off in two-hour chunks against the last four episodes of Game of Throneseven the effort feels almost hollow. More Like This.