The Makers Of 'Game of Thrones' Announced Their Next Show And People Already Hate It

20 July 2017, 11:57

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Woodrow Whyte

By Woodrow Whyte

"Can you imagine how much harmful imagery they're gonna produce?"

Yesterday it was announced that once “Game of Thrones” concludes its final series, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will begin work on their next project for HBO — an alternate history series called “Confederate.”



The show's basic premise - that slavery remains legal - has not gone down well with a lot of people. There are a few different reasons for this. Some people feel that Confederate is just another show where black characters are relegated to the role of slaves while white characters enact a White Saviour fantasy. Others have expressed concern about the possibility of excessive violent scenes against black bodies on the show, especially given GoT's reputation for using violent imagery, most notably Sansa's poorly written rape scene in series 5. 

And that's not even going into the similarities between real life American today and this fictional, legal-slavery America. As The Daily Beast noted, Klan membership and hate crimes in America are on the rise and the prison industrial complex is seen by many as the government’s substitute for slavery.







Confederate will at least involve two black writers who will also serve as the show's executive producers (Nichelle Tramble Spellman and Malcolm Spellman), so you'd hope this won't descend into the shit show that many are predicting. Nevertheless, this probably isn't the start to the project that HBO would have wanted.