DEI, LGBTQ and White Bashing/Groveling

Where to start? Jake, Law’s character, spends the show groveling to every woman around him—especially his black female co-star. Enter Roxy: the uppity, black, girl-boss in the kitchen, who's in a gay and biracial relationship of course, and apparently the only thing holding Jake’s life together since, as a straight white male, he’s incapable. She can't stop complaining any time Jake doesn't do exactly what she tells him. Then there’s Cleopatra "Duck Lips" Coleman who's Jake’s “prize,” because God forbid we don’t have an interracial couple.

Bateman’s Vince? A bumbling man who can get his act together—naturally, since he’s straight and white. The villains? White, too, with a deaf leader for extra box-checking. Every DEI / LGB square gets ticked. Black male characters? Rich and virtuous. They even squeeze in a #MeToo subplot with Jake’s white friend revealed as a rapist though the victim heaps much of the blame on Jake. And what's with Jake's son, Hunter wishing for ballet tickets for his birthday? Really? How many gay characters can you shoe horn into a mini series? That's 4!!

As soon as everyone can, they start betraying Jake who's only ever been extremely nice to them. Everyone around him is a back-stabber.

There's a police presence in several episodes. Of course the detective is this quite mannish Asian woman who is after Jake and no one else. In this world white men are either bad guys or inept.

By Episode 4, the message is clear: bash straight white men, elevate everyone else. At this point, I’m just waiting for the inevitable trans character cameo.