“Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion:” The Nadir

     I’ve ranted before about how this plague has infested entertainment, especially video productions. I thought at the time that I wouldn’t be moved to say any more about it – that I’d expunged the irritation, that the case was made, and what would follow, would follow. That was before yesterday evening’s “entertainment.”

     The C.S.O. and I enjoyed Timothy Hutton’s Leverage series from first to last. The shows were clever, well paced, and well acted for television fare. But all things must pass, and Hutton, the soul of the series, has gone on to other projects.

     Well, apparently the remainder of the cast got addicted to the action (to say nothing of those sweet, sweet paychecks), and persuaded Noah Wyle, perhaps best known for the Librarians series, to resurrect their glory days under the title Leverage: Redemption. The C.S.O. spotted the offering under Amazon’s “Freevee” subsidiary and insisted that we give it a try.

     After last night’s helping, I think she’s thrown the monkey off her back. In forty-five minutes of mediocre and unconvincing action, the show fed us:

• Two interracial couples;
• Both of which were also homosexual;
• One of which was targeted by a white-supremacist hate group;
• Which was acting as security muscle for a con man / plutocrat;
• Which con man was straining to sell investors a fictitious electric super-battery;
• Under the usual “make airplanes electric and save the planet, dude” pretext;
• All while committing a massive pollution-invasion of the interracial-homosexual couple’s farm.

     Glory be to God! Could you pack any more PC bullshit into forty-five minutes?

     Well, at least the recently crowned Miss Universe 2025 is an actual woman. A blue-eyed European blonde, at that. Though I’m sure the DEI fanatics will be along any minute to protest that “black lesbians with penises were underrepresented” in the competition.