What a world we live in

[vetran]

Watch the American series's. I kid you not, there is a lesbian or gay relationship in every single one of them now. My other half binge watches them and she's not see one for a bit now that hasn't. Nothing wrong and yeah is a reflection of life, but every single show bar none? Some of them definitely put in there for a reason and not for the script as it feels really out of place, others it's kind of natural. Just noteable it's every single show now.

Sounds more like NLyUK is selecting such stuff!

[d000hg]

Watch the American series's. I kid you not, there is a lesbian or gay relationship in every single one of them now. My other half binge watches them and she's not see one for a bit now that hasn't. Nothing wrong and yeah is a reflection of life, but every single show bar none? Some of them definitely put in there for a reason and not for the script as it feels really out of place, others it's kind of natural. Just noteable it's every single show now.

I would say UK is even ahead on this now? Would certainly agree it feels forced in many cases, it's noteworthy when a show does it naturally (Schitt's Creek does it really well). But thinking about it a writer has to explicitly make a decision when developing a character if they are gay so to pick any minority demographic is 'forced'. Randomly deciding that 10% of your characters should be gay wouldn't be unreasonable - like even using a random generator so it's not your conscious choice (unless it's specifically part of the plot)