3 lesser known sci-fi shows on inequality
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One of the things I enjoy most about science fiction is the opportunity for world-building the medium affords. There’s only a few story structures that have worked across millennia, so what’s great about sci-fi is that you can gawk at the newness of the world in the background, and picture what things would be like living in that world.
To indulge this sense of novelty, particularly at a time when we’re mostly grounded to our home and its surrounds, I spend a lot of time trawling streaming platforms for shows in whose worlds I can immerse myself. Given economic and racial inequality are very much top of mind for us, I’ve found that 3 shows do a very good job of illustrating the complexities and nuances of inequality, and how they affect the decisions of characters in the show. And 2 of them are not natively English shows.
If you haven’t already watched these, I’d highly recommend:
#1 — Beforeigners
Beforeigners is a visually-arresting treatise on how the influx of a new population can foster resentment among incumbents who feel more entitled to certain…
