chaos0xomega wrote:
I'm also not convinced by the "latinofication" of the Addams family (I am latino as well as an extremely progressive bleeding heart, so lets not go into the political realm on this). Im fine with the casting of Jenna Ortega (phenomenal job working the material she was given) and Luis Guzman (his performance I found disappointing, but I think thats more the material he was given combined with the limited screentime), the rest of the Addams clans casting was decidedly more meh,
IMO. Anyway, more to the point, in general the Addams family works better being ethnically ambiguous and of a more mysterious provenance. Making the Addamses apparently wholly latino and definitively Mexican (per dialogue) kind of takes away the mystery. I also feel compelled to point out that neither "Addams" nor "Frump" are latino names, and that predicating the entire families ethnic identity on one characters *given* name is pretty fethed up and itself a bit racist - simply put, thats not how first names work and a white guy named Gomez isn't suddenly from a hispanic family, nor is an asian man named Charlie suddenly white.
As a mixed-Latino myself I'm agreeing here. Gomez is Visigothic in origin, so anywhere from Spain or France would have also worked, and the name spread eastward too.
I'm actually enjoying some of the more "out there" criticisms of the show from major news outlets. This includes the "it's racist because the mean girl is Black" and the "It's homophobic because they didn't make Enid and Wednesday a lesbian power dynamic." arguments.
