Why Write A Failed TV Interracial Relationship? (Spoiler)

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Last Sunday, I’ve came across a cancelled Canadian Medical TV show called Remedy (2014-2015). What caught my attention while I was browsing it is that they had an interracial relationship between a black man and white woman. I have to say that WM/BW is my number interracial couples, but I do check out other interracial coupling. The show wind up having two IR relationship: BM/WW and WM/BW. The white woman and white man were siblings.

I hated the black man and white woman’s relationship, because it wasn’t a relationship. They didn’t even have chemistry. I do see why they were put together. The writers should have never written this relationship, because it was a failed relationship from the start. The black guy is a doctor and the white woman is a nurse. He’s arrogant and cocky. He could be rude. Which those traits wasn’t just in the black doctor. The man didn’t know how to talk to patients and even his fiancé. Yes, they were engaged and she later found out that she was pregnant. She was scared to tell him that she was pregnant. At one point, he looked at her as just being a nurse. He didn’t even want to kiss her in public, which I know some people don’t like doing that in the front of people. These people did not mesh together. He was more alive with the clown worker at the hospital. At a session with her, she had to bring to his attention how he is with people, by acting just like him towards him. Season 1 is 10 episodes before the 10th episode, the nurse called off their wedding . Needless to say, she not only got him out of her life, he wasn’t in the baby’s life either, which turned out to be a baby girl in season 2.

The brother and the black woman became a couple in season 1 and lasted until like the 8th episode of season 2, which is also 10 episodes. The white guy was a drug addict, but have gotten clean and was cleaned for 1 year, then the writers had to have something to break up him and the black woman for.

I have stuck with the show to see what have happened with the bw/wm,

As a writer, I feel that a writer shouldn’t write IR relationship, if it’s going to be a failure from day one. In TV, I feel they should not write interracial relationships, if they don’t plan on making it permanent. If you are bold to start an interracial relationship, be bold to keep it. Not everyone in an interracial relationship breaks up. Some of them have been married longer than celebrities.

[Peter]

I have not seen the show, but I get what you mean.
I have no problem with a failed IR in a show, if they also show another one that stays healthy and strong, I think the problem is, if it is too one-sided in the depicture - it being all problems all of the time or too perfect. Even great relationships may struggle at times, but they get stronger after resolving it. Usually, I think
a lot creators like slipping into extremes - from one opposite to the other.

[Robb]

My wife saw a statistic that IRL BW/WM marriages last longer than any grouping -- including WMWW. I think by nature BW and WM are very loyal, so they mesh