And it’s a positive depiction, because she’s quickly accepted by her old friends as they fall back into their usual dynamic.
The 2013 Cartoon Network series Steven Universe had a same-sex wedding in 2018, and this year, the PBS kids’ series Arthur gave its character Mr Ratburn a gay wedding… Rachel’s plotline is a big step forward because it addresses her transition openly as a key story arc of a show for kids.
It felt natural, because it was not only about change, about somebody finding who they are and making that courageous choice to go through that change.Īccording to VICE, “things are changing” in children’s programming, and Netflix is using its “leeway as a streaming platform to make its own rules and push the needle…” When I started writing, I really started latching onto the idea of change and how society has changed and what’s gone on in the last 20 years and the development of our characters and how they would react to change.
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