HBO
Well, that was fast.
Minutes after HBO announced on Wednesday that the network would be partnering with "Game of Thrones" creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss on a new dystopian fantasy series called "Confederate," people started complaining about it.
According to the premium cable network, the new series "chronicles the events leading to the Third American Civil War," which leads to "a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution."
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The series takes place in an alternate timeline, where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution. The story follows a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone — freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate and the families of people in their thrall.
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These Caucasians can keep it https://t.co/Lng9l8yzBA
@ira
The writers of a fantasy show with no black people cant wait to write a fantasy show where the black roles are... slaves
@ira
this feels miscalculated but what do i know https://t.co/2sZnB63irM
@emilyyoshida
Are there lots of "If the Nazis won..." tv/movie concepts? Zero interest in slavery-fantasy show.
@jccharlesesq
Yeah, no... pic.twitter.com/7X7eQuIHkI
@TheBGates
Ah.
@Duvisited
Guys, thank you for your service, but I'm going to pass on *waves generally* all of that.
At first, Jeff Sessions thought it was a biopic about him.
@davidpom2000
Who the fuck approved this? How you gonna go from having a show with NO BLACK people to one where the black people are slaves in 2017? FOH
@kelleent
as a black person in America, I can tell you it sounds super painful to watch tbh
@theadrianjames
literally why
@jordansdiamonds
Who asked for this??? pic.twitter.com/ep8qsHVfjJ
@Mihrimah_Irena
HBO: “Come up with an idea that will generate the most think pieces possible.”
@SonnyBunch
Benioff and Weiss: “Challenge accepted.” pic.twitter.com/Gn8daigzUy
is there anything white showrunners love more than telling on themselves
@ethiopienne
This seems like a really bad idea pic.twitter.com/MblBkELujs
@IamHarshDave
White men are exhausting.
@Bitchpuddingpie
