darkcurry
Well-Known Member
As we know Hollywood is still racist. So we can't win them all. I think IR overall on television between bm/ww is headed towards a strong push.
We already have these shows featuring IR between bm/ww:
- Stranger Things
- Dynasty
- Timeless
- Midnight, Texas (which features a rare vampire IR romance. And renewed for season 2 this summer.)
-The Originals
-The Good Place
-Friends From College (even though some of us didn't like it. lol. But that was renewed for season 2.)
-La Esclava Blanca (a spanish language show set in 19th century colombia on netflix.)
And upcoming shows like:
- Life Sentence
- Cloak and Dagger
- For The People
Netflix has some IR movies on their site like:
- Little Boxes
- The Watcher
- 100 Streets
- BRIGHT (Will Smith's wife is white)
- Five Nights In Maine
- Don't Think Twice
- Reality High (Teen Movie that even though it is lead by a black female in the trailer it has IR between a black boy and a white girl and the black kid seems to the romantically pursued by the girls.)
- Mum, Dad Meet Sam
- CRU
- Somewhere In The Middle
- The Week Of (upcoming Chris Rock, Adam Sandler picture.)
But we should of see the barage of black women in IR relationships coming (Did't @flaminghetero talk a bit about this. lol.) with women rising in power in Hollywood (which was the main point of the #Metoo movement.) that black women were going to want this power too, meaning the only way it would be accepted of a black man having big time success is if he caters to black women or it is okay'ed by black women. We already seen what happened with Michael B. Jordan, break out star of Black Panther, considered a hollywood heartthrob and now these black women put him on notice with the warning of the whole black panther boycott when they found out he was dating a non-black girl. The threat obviously didn't do anything to the film's success, but since then he has proclaimed himself single and have flirted with Lupita N'yongo. I guarantee you he is thinking about NOT taking roles that have him playing the love interest of a white woman because that "controversy" made him think twice. So that what that threat was REALLY meant to do. Control him. Jay Ellis now hides his relationship after fans of insecure found out he was dating a white woman. Did you see he and Nina Senicar's IG post of Valentine's Day. lol. Some black women are already talking about how Luke Cage and Claire Temple should remain a couple or they will boycott the show if they break up. Taye Diggs have already came out and said that he don't know if he can ever date another white woman again because of the hate her got when he was married to Idina Menzel. Now they are aiming for and getting power in Hollywood, so black men are taking a backseat after the very short time we had a chance to sit up front. So you are not going to be seeing much mainstream promotion and a lot of hype over anything IR involving a black man (unless it is gay.) that at least they will allow to overtake black female projects in hollywood. So black media like shadow and act will not give much hype and promotion to most of those shows and movies I have listed. Cloak and Dagger is Marvel's most anticipated new show and I don't think many black media outlets have mentioned it. So even though we are headed towards a strong push, it is still and will ALWAYS be met with negativity.
We already have these shows featuring IR between bm/ww:
- Stranger Things
- Dynasty
- Timeless
- Midnight, Texas (which features a rare vampire IR romance. And renewed for season 2 this summer.)
-The Originals
-The Good Place
-Friends From College (even though some of us didn't like it. lol. But that was renewed for season 2.)
-La Esclava Blanca (a spanish language show set in 19th century colombia on netflix.)
And upcoming shows like:
- Life Sentence
- Cloak and Dagger
- For The People
Netflix has some IR movies on their site like:
- Little Boxes
- The Watcher
- 100 Streets
- BRIGHT (Will Smith's wife is white)
- Five Nights In Maine
- Don't Think Twice
- Reality High (Teen Movie that even though it is lead by a black female in the trailer it has IR between a black boy and a white girl and the black kid seems to the romantically pursued by the girls.)
- Mum, Dad Meet Sam
- CRU
- Somewhere In The Middle
- The Week Of (upcoming Chris Rock, Adam Sandler picture.)
But we should of see the barage of black women in IR relationships coming (Did't @flaminghetero talk a bit about this. lol.) with women rising in power in Hollywood (which was the main point of the #Metoo movement.) that black women were going to want this power too, meaning the only way it would be accepted of a black man having big time success is if he caters to black women or it is okay'ed by black women. We already seen what happened with Michael B. Jordan, break out star of Black Panther, considered a hollywood heartthrob and now these black women put him on notice with the warning of the whole black panther boycott when they found out he was dating a non-black girl. The threat obviously didn't do anything to the film's success, but since then he has proclaimed himself single and have flirted with Lupita N'yongo. I guarantee you he is thinking about NOT taking roles that have him playing the love interest of a white woman because that "controversy" made him think twice. So that what that threat was REALLY meant to do. Control him. Jay Ellis now hides his relationship after fans of insecure found out he was dating a white woman. Did you see he and Nina Senicar's IG post of Valentine's Day. lol. Some black women are already talking about how Luke Cage and Claire Temple should remain a couple or they will boycott the show if they break up. Taye Diggs have already came out and said that he don't know if he can ever date another white woman again because of the hate her got when he was married to Idina Menzel. Now they are aiming for and getting power in Hollywood, so black men are taking a backseat after the very short time we had a chance to sit up front. So you are not going to be seeing much mainstream promotion and a lot of hype over anything IR involving a black man (unless it is gay.) that at least they will allow to overtake black female projects in hollywood. So black media like shadow and act will not give much hype and promotion to most of those shows and movies I have listed. Cloak and Dagger is Marvel's most anticipated new show and I don't think many black media outlets have mentioned it. So even though we are headed towards a strong push, it is still and will ALWAYS be met with negativity.
