JamalSpunky
Well-Known Member
Damenova mentioned this last week (go back to the previous page). I was going to mention it myself but he (or she) beat me to the pun
So I was stuck at home on Friday. And for the first time since perhaps when Evil was on on CBS I decided to watch the debut of a broadcast network TV series. Ummm here are my thoughts
Calloway's character is portrayed as a serial womanizer who has major commitment issues. Gabriela is all into him but is disappointed when he at first doesn't respond the way she wanted him to when she said she loved him. He later corrects that but...is he sincere? Anyway the show has already set him up as a possibly untrustworthy romantic partner who may be hard to sympathize with. His white rival however, though fresh out of jail, is portrayed as far more honorable and worthy and sincere. A possible roughneck bad boy with a heart. He helps Gabriela with her car problems when he returns to town and runs into her for the first time I should add. What's worse is that he makes Calloway's character look like a chump when it comes to fireman capabilities. The Calloway character is flailing when fighting the big fire outbreak of the week. He stumbles and later has a tree fall on him which pins him down. But You see the white bad boy is a former firefighter himself from this same community. He breaks ranks from the prison gang he is with, disobeys a command to leave the area and goes off like the noble man he is to save the trapped firefighters. Twice he rescues Jordan's character from certain doom. But he does so somewhat out of spite because it turns out he has a bad history with him. Someone the white dude cared about ( a crush, a former girlfriend, a sister ?) died at his hands but the situation was supposedly initiated by Calloway's character breaking her heart and causing her to become distraught.
The Calloway character seems like a good person overall on the surface but he is immature and a bit of a playboy. Now on a show on a prestige streaming service network I could imagine writers having larger plans to slowly reveal deeper layers and provide an adequate story regarding why he is a womanizer. But I won't hold my breath that a CBS show relegated to Friday nights would do something like that.
The Calloway character seems like a good person overall on the surface but he is immature and a bit of a playboy. Now on a show on a prestige streaming service network I could imagine writers having larger plans to slowly reveal deeper layers and provide an adequate story regarding why he is a womanizer. But I won't hold my breath that a CBS show relegated to Friday nights would do something like that.
