by Charles Mudede Netflix
If you are racially minded—and if you are not white, it is impossible not to be—the first thing you notice in the Netflix's new movie Extinction is this screwy thing about the show's main family: the father is Latino (Michael Peña), the mother is white (Lizzy Caplan), but both of their daughters are white. No effort, it seems, was made to make the girls even plausibly mixed. What's this about? As the film progresses, as you watch Peña working a
If you are racially minded—and if you are not white, it is impossible not to be—the first thing you notice in the Netflix's new movie Extinction is this screwy thing about the show's main family: the father is Latino (Michael Peña), the mother is white (Lizzy Caplan), but both of their daughters are white. No effort, it seems, was made to make the girls even plausibly mixed. What's this about? As the film progresses, as you watch Peña working a