For those that aren’t familiar with it, 4400 is a show currently in its first season that is airing on the CW. It is a remake of a previous show called The 4400. In it, people from all throughout time arrive at some point in the present (or future for them) with no idea how they time travelled there or why. None of them meant to do that and there is more mystery with them as they start developing powers.
As you can imagine, 4400 people who disappeared throughout time and returned at once you’d think would be a good reason to go with a racially diverse cast. However, the people in the cast are largely just black and white. It is a black centric show with most of the protagonists being black and some of the villains being white. Now I don’t have a problem with black heroes and white villains in this commonly used trope. I might have to do posts about it, if I knew what to call it.
Still, I feel that focusing on only two races in a show about over a thousand missing people is missing the mark when it comes to casting a show. There are not any Hispanics, Indigenous people, people of Asian descent, Indians, Middle Eastern people, or any other race that exists. There might be some biracial people on the show, but that’s about it when it comes to racial diversity. Shouldn’t there be more in the cast than effectively just two races?
This is something that can be rectified as the show goes along. There are plenty of people in the 4400 that can be focused on during time that could make the cast more racially diverse. I’m not saying that this should be done per say. But if they do that, it should be something that isn’t forced upon them. It should be a way of expanding on the show that they want to do and accomplish. If they do this, then it wouldn’t feel so much that the casting was too narrowly minded when it took place.
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