Two Reasons Why I Love to Watch Mr. Iglesias series on Netflix

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These past few days, I found time watching the Netflix Series of Fluffy (Gabriel Iglesias). In this movie, Gabe plays a high school history teacher who uses an “unconventional” approach in dealing with his students. It is a situational comedy, and it features a series of mean exchanges of words. I believe that it is still an ongoing series. I am not aware of what is happening to this because I barely had the time to research it.

 

1.     The characters

 

In this series, I love how the characters present cultural diversity. I love how it is presented or how I think it challenges racism and other social issues. I love the way different social and cultural stereotypes are presented and simultaneously, destroyed by conversation from the characters. I also like the character development of the Asian character Grace Lee in her transition from a shy freshman to a character who is not very shy to drop her one-liners. Although annoying, it is interesting to see how Carlo (the insecure assistant principal) has developed over time. The series presented real-world people (psychological, social, and cultural struggles) issues magnified to show the absurdity of many aspects of societies.

 

2.     The Social Issues

 

I enjoy how this series presented grim social and cultural realities lightly. The humor here is very political and otherwise depressing. This series can teach the general public the new narrative of cultural diversity and social justice by using humor. The history lectures were presented using the contemporary narrative of neo-colonialism and imperialism.  I love how these series ridicule the existing paradigms of society.

 

 

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