[anigbrowl]

The producers are doing just fine. artistic subversion of commercial considerations is a norm in the arts industry; if anything, this gives an otherwise shallow piece of ideological entertainment some unintended cultural depth.

[rjsw]

An older example of the same kind of thing could be Melrose Place [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Place#GALA_Committee