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A year end look back at 13 Freshman TV series of 2013 @FILMTVDIVERSITY applauds and celebrates. This is the 1st of our Final Four(10,11,12 and 13) we're calling Ground Breakers in that they establish a great precedent we'd like to see more of from the industry.
First up is "Nickelodeon's The Haunted Hathaways" #10 of 13 overall and #1 of 4 of our Ground Breakers it premiered this summer and has hence secured several new episodes for its first season plus a slate of episodes for a 2nd Season.
The premise is a Single "Caucasian" Woman and her two daughters move into a haunted house and the Ghosts are a Single "African" American" Dad and his two sons. Let that stew for a minute!
You see the actual premise of the show did not include "Caucasian" or "African American" we threw that in to make a point. At first look at the show, as adults our American cultural mindsets teaches us to interject such labels and when doing so can mislead us at times this show would be a scary scenario haunted or not, but the irony is the show in a subtle way presses against stereotypes so engrained in american society that African American's and Whites can't coexist in great harmony.
We like this show for the very reason it helps fly against stereotypes, if we as adults simply let it do so for the children. It's a show for the kids and yes even for some of us adults to help us see the good of coexistence, that is of course until we as adults project our own prejudices and premises such as "why the black kids have to be ghosts" or similar thoughts onto children then the innocence and lack of prejudice children often approach with shows like this is indeed lost and we build the next generation of children pitted against each other because of race, simply because their elders or parents turned their minds to view a kids show about race instead of letting them see it for what it is: a show focused on telling a story with characters and not one about race.
In short The Haunted Hathaways becomes simply a TV show about two single parents raising their children one haunted and one living, If as adults we don't interject race into the story, and you observe these parents simply learning to coexist with each other with no misconceived perceptions of culture.
So as not to taint children any further with our Adult look at this kids show, we're simply just going to post the link to the show to share with your children, nieces, nephews and the like, because this post which they probably shouldn't be reading anyway is more of a message to us who are old enough to be tainted and all the kids really need to know is there's a new kids show on TV they can checkout, explore and enjoy it for what it's worth.
First up is "Nickelodeon's The Haunted Hathaways" #10 of 13 overall and #1 of 4 of our Ground Breakers it premiered this summer and has hence secured several new episodes for its first season plus a slate of episodes for a 2nd Season.
The premise is a Single "Caucasian" Woman and her two daughters move into a haunted house and the Ghosts are a Single "African" American" Dad and his two sons. Let that stew for a minute!
You see the actual premise of the show did not include "Caucasian" or "African American" we threw that in to make a point. At first look at the show, as adults our American cultural mindsets teaches us to interject such labels and when doing so can mislead us at times this show would be a scary scenario haunted or not, but the irony is the show in a subtle way presses against stereotypes so engrained in american society that African American's and Whites can't coexist in great harmony.
We like this show for the very reason it helps fly against stereotypes, if we as adults simply let it do so for the children. It's a show for the kids and yes even for some of us adults to help us see the good of coexistence, that is of course until we as adults project our own prejudices and premises such as "why the black kids have to be ghosts" or similar thoughts onto children then the innocence and lack of prejudice children often approach with shows like this is indeed lost and we build the next generation of children pitted against each other because of race, simply because their elders or parents turned their minds to view a kids show about race instead of letting them see it for what it is: a show focused on telling a story with characters and not one about race.
In short The Haunted Hathaways becomes simply a TV show about two single parents raising their children one haunted and one living, If as adults we don't interject race into the story, and you observe these parents simply learning to coexist with each other with no misconceived perceptions of culture.
Web: http://www.nick.com/shows/haunted-hathaways/
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