the black guy being gay adds absolutely nothing to this story
other than that, this show is horribly boring.
shareHe's gay in the books. So...
sharehim being gay in the book too doesn't mean anything. the book author shouldnt have done that. i often see them making the black guy gay so they can get all the demographics they need because they don't need to have him be a love interest for any viewer. he's just a novelty. that's why ugly black women get way more acting roles than pretty ones.
if it wasn't such a huge trope with american writers, then it wouldn't be a big deal. it's just ridiculous how much they use it.
him being gay in the book too doesn't mean anything. the book author shouldnt have done that. i often see them making the black guy gay so they can get all the demographics they need because they don't need to have him be a love interest for any viewer. he's just a novelty.Raoul the nurse was a love interest in one of the episodes. So you're wrong.
By the way, I think Leonard's homosexuality is an interesting subversion from stereotypical gay roles. This is not the first time Michael Kenneth Williams played an unconventional gay man before on TV. Check his homo thug character Omar Little on The Wire (2002).
that's why ugly black women get way more acting roles than pretty ones.Beauty is subjective. So your argument is moot.
if it wasn't such a huge trope with american writers, then it wouldn't be a big deal. it's just ridiculous how much they use it.One gay main character in a sea of heterosexuals? Yes, that's SO ridiculous.
Anyway, I doubt homosexual themes is a huge trope with American writers. I've read my fair share of American novels and short stories which had NO gay subtext. share
"the book author shouldnt have done that"
The author can do whatever he likes. As a point of fact, this series was based on a book written in 1990. There were not a lot of gay black main characters in crime novels being written in that era. What I truly love about your comment is that you're trying to sound educated by talking about tropes and demographics, and yet you only come across as an ignorant person trying to make a pointless criticism. The character being gay doesn't have to add or take anything away from the show anymore than any other character being straight. That's just who he is, and it's not like there aren't actual gay black people out there. A basic character trait isn't a trope. A trope is a plot element repeated over and over, like when the hero shows up at the very last minute or when someone falls down while running from a serial killer. If you want to see what a "gay black trope" would look like, watch the movie Dirty Grandpa.
Otherwise what we're left with is a show about two straight white southern guys getting into trouble in the 80s. Like that would make the show any more interesting.
Also, if you're going to attempt critical literary analysis and tell us what accomplished writers should and shouldn't be doing, it would benefit you at the very least to pretend that you know what capital letters and apostrophes are.