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Why Netflix’s New Teen Drama ‘Grand Army’ Is at the Center of Racism Allegations

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Grand Army looks like a game-changer. The show presents itself as a powerful, nuanced depiction of adolescents in present-day New York City: traumatized, tired, yet stubbornly immune to despair.

Perhaps most crucially, Grand Army’s cast looks like the youth of New York City; most of the series' main characters are people of color.

But peeling back the curtain on the writer’s room reveals a now-familiar waft of controversy—aaaand inevitable Twitter drama.

To understand why a dark cloud now hovers over the release, we did a little digging into the backlash.Grand Army is the creation of teacher, playwright and director , who lifted material—most obviously protagonist Joey—from her celebrated play Slut, first written and directed in 2013.

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