The diversity tv series that we see on TV or in the various platforms proliferate to excess and are an interesting tool through which to understand society. Here are three compelling and profound ones that, in addition to making you think, will glue you to the screen.
Atypical: Sam love and friendship
Atypical is one of the series that best celebrates disability. Among the TV series visible on the Netflix platform, Atypical can be watched in one breath! The series tells the life of Sam, an 18-year-old boy suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome (similar to autism). Passionate about penguins and very intelligent, Sam relates to love by approaching adolescent problems and trying to juggle his own feelings and the feelings of others.
Her determination in deciding to do everything his head tells him, both at school and in interacting with people, he worries the family who always tries to protect him with the fundamental help of his sister Casey. Sam will also be helped byfriend Zahid, a nice and intelligent boy who feels a deep affection for Sam and advises him as a true friend the next strategic moves.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy’s “conversion”
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt by Netflix is a series that celebrates the diversity of people in all their aspects. Not because this is actually the dominant theme of the series, but because at the end of it certainly the simple message “each person is unique“. The protagonist of the hilarious story is Kimmy, kidnapped with other girls who will be his companions in “misadventure”. They are kidnapped by a madman who segregates them in a bunker after making them believe that the world was over.
The bunker turns out to be just one journey of conscience for the protagonist, in fact, it comes out reconverted to a new self. A cheerful, sunny person, with a great desire to help others and to give something decisive and positive contribution in people’s lives that surround it. In doing so, then, it starts from the lives of Titus, homosexual and self-centered actor, of Lilian hippy hostess, and di Jaqueline, a very rich woman to whom Kimmy will positively overturn Jaq’s idea of herself.
Sweet Tooth: the series on “hybrids”
A TV series, also Netflix, which has glued young and old to the screen. Sweet Tooth celebrates diversity with humor, fairytale genius and compelling story. The TV series is set in a dystopian future where one global pandemic he has displaced the human race from the earth. However, one comes forward new breed of children, from the ashes of the previous world. The hybrids, as they are called, they are half human and half animal.
Hybrids are viewed in a distorted and distrustful way. The result of a disastrous and catastrophic event, therefore beings to be marginalized and hunted. Diversity is once again relegated to the margins of society because it’s scary. And even a “fairytale” film tells us the oldest message in the world!
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