Dear White People has a pretty provocative title — and the show, for the most part, lives up to that promise, with a sharply drawn portrait of racial tension at Winchester University, a fictional Ivy League school.It was originally a film written and directed by Justin Simien, who then reinvented the story as a Netflix series with each episode focusing on a different character; the spotlight shifts from Samantha White (played by Logan Browning), the host of the titular radio show, to many of the other students — white and black — around her.The show just returned for season two, and on the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, we&re joined by our colleague Megan Rose Dickey (who also co-hosts Ctrl-T) to talk about our impressions of the new episodes, the show politics and how it resonates with our own lives and experiences.We also cover Netflix goal of hitting 1,000 originals by the end of the year and the Jordan Peel-produced series about Nazi hunters that was just picked up by Amazon.
Most importantly, we try to understand why Megan has never seen The Godfather.You can listen in the player below, subscribe using Apple Podcastsor find us in your podcast player of choice.
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