Another silly "retro" show to avoid casting people of color?
Seriously, this sh!t has to stop. Pan Am was cancelled and Mad Men is done.
I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy.
ABC is one of the THE most progressive networks when it comes to casting so they're not trying to avoid anything.
It's really unfair of TV show creators to limit creating period dramas, no matter how well done or not, just because casting would inevitably exclude racial minorities who aren't as underrepresented as critics would like us to believe.
When the stars are the only things we share
Will you be there?
-Benjamin Francis Leftwich
Besides, it seems that the writer went out of their way to include the family of the maid at the hotel in Cocoa Beach throughout the story arc. At one point I had missed a jump in time and was shocked that the little kid was now a teen.
Ignoring the time period for that reason is absolutely wrong. We can still learn from the attitudes of that time period. The character in question was used to challenge that very attitude (and I am sorry that I can't remember the young man's name, but the cast had so many couples that I have a hard time remembering which actress is Mrs. Glenn & which actor is Alan Shepard - I think I would have kept the Mercury Seven straight had they not introduced the Gemini Nine).