Another day another controversial show is in the works. Primos. A new cartoon is coming to Disney Channel, and it somehow managed to piss nearly everyone off. But I’m not gonna focus on that. Is the series looking to be as bad as it seems? Probably not, short answer. Read on for the long one.
Primos is a series centering on the life of a Hispanic girl having to put up with her siblings, a huge amount of siblings. I know this may seem familiar to you, but that’s because it is.
On the surface, Primos looks like another generic bean cartoon, one certain members of the cartoon community would latch onto because it has a young female lead, that’s not the case here…
But back on track, it seems like this is meant to be Disney’s answer to The Casagrandes, or The Loud House. Let’s face it, TV shows that have a large family, as in siblings, relatives, the like, aren’t as common as you think, especially as both of these have those reaching the double digits. They wanted something to get Nickelodeon’s audiences with, the creator of Primos just so happened to be the first to offer.
It seems this will be about a girl trying to make it through life but it is complicated by her siblings. Not helping with the Loud House parallels here.
It seems like Disney had little thought to how to handle a series with a predominantly Spanish cast of characters, I mean with stuff like Encanto they could give a shit, but it's clear representation is second to marketability, as they wanted a cute series they could push to said Loud House audience and get a similar following. It didn't work.
It doesn't work because Disney is handling it, and they seem to have a more cynical attitude toward representation, as in, doing it for the sake of doing it and getting relevance, why else is every instance of representation their first a lot of the time? I feel Primos personifies such cynicism, and does absolutely nothing with it.
If it were up to me, Primos would be a show about a girl falling out with her Spanish roots and is caught between two different cultures, trying to make the best of either. There is a lot more to this show, but I don't want to accidentally bury the lead here.
All I can say is that Primos looks like it's gonna bomb hard, not that the creatives are making things any better.
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