Can Hollywood writers do any better than interracial?

I agree. I think people are reading this visuality all wrong in this show, which explores Letty's struggles multi-culturally rather than mono-culturally - and visually colorfully.

I think the show has utilised different looking characters deliberately, so that it creates a visual contrast between who Letty is and what her actions create - i.e. take her black child, which in appearance is sort of divorced from her, as if it wasn't meant to be, and you keep being reminded of this as a kind of 'dark humorous' statement.

The protagonist's relationships with characters with obviously different genetic makeup also makes her more eccentric than her very apparent predominantly 'white' cultural background... Letty does not just make 'bad' choices, her preferences are also 'eccentric'; This all adds to her becoming involved in a kind of cultural and visual chaos, provoking more contrasts... And so, instead of her choices leading her to drink, drugs, killing and literal violence all the time - this would be extremely tiresome, tried and boring - instead she becomes involved in other absurd situations i,e, with Javier's family, her child's identity crises etc which all indirectly echo themes relating to her own struggles.

In other words, introducing different visuality, cultures and 'identities' makes narrative much more richer, genuine and original - than if her struggles were only explored mono-culturally. Also, I rather not see Elba in the series, all the actors are doing just great.

I think this acting out and pseudo-resistance to diverse representation is nonsense. It has more to do with extreme superficiality through which certain people navigate their lives - not being able to get over the 'shock' of seeing something different - and then never getting to the point of being able identify with difference. Certain people then become concerned with 'agenda', but only for reasons to justify their own inability. All humans have much more in common than not.

This is also explored in the show where it is questioned whether the child is categorically/culturally 'black' or whether he is in fact more like his mother than his father, despite his appearance... Added is Letty's struggle and the question as to whether she is fit to be a mother not despite her appearance but despite her past.... Can we all be ACCEPTED as one thing or another despite the color of skin or our trials and tribulations?