Why The Queer Representation In Power is Bad

 *SPOILERS FOR POWER*




Okay I have finished the Starz crime soap opera oh wait i mean drama Power


To get one good thing about the show. It is good in racial & ethnic diversity. The cast is majority Black and Latino which is good for a premium network show (Though besides that not much else ethnic groups besides Mak, the show's basically token Asian character beside a East Asian mob that pops up in S2 or S3)


Now why do i think the queer representation in the show is bad




Well for starters all 3 major queer characters are in antagonistic roles. All three are Queer People of Color. And two of them die (Yup the bury your gays trope) and the third is only revealed as a lesbian (which was good in itself cause of how casual it was) in the last season because the writers figured that they barely had any queer characters. And she becomes a crooked cop out of nowhere besides being desperate. So while it may be not the worst representation of queer characters in media i have seen there was alot of room for improvement 

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