Relative to China, the Russian Federation, the United States, Mexico, the British Isles are a small land mass, and this will no doubt have to serve as the rationale for why Nina Sosanya is in every fucking series the BBC produces as The Anglicized Minority. She is a competent actress, and no doubt represents the epitome of progressive nirvana, playing the lesbian fuck buddy in the Tango Halifax upgrade, which reprises the same motif we've seen throughout a century of British film: the elderly have nine lives around which the productive contemporaries orbit with Their Own Importance. But wait! Here she is in Morse, playing the love child, or the bitchy barrister over reaching in a Silk power struggle. American television is not immune to familiarity contempt casting. (cf Richard Kind) But surely there must be a Pakistani or a fresh face from Bollywood who can handle the British accent and the cosmopolitan flair of engaging in coitus with Caucasians of European genotypes! Even the CBC understands that stale is not always a compensating reassurance! It is almost a synchronic answer the English viewpoint, about the nature of inclusion on the homefront, not so much strident as bloody dull. American producers, however moronic, are at least willing to actualize black culture as one thing, white another, with Latinos in a fluid, amorphous median.
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