'while it’s not exactly big and bland (well, not entirely bland, anyway), it also doesn’t go far enough to underscore the tension and fear underlying the world of Runway magazine, presided over by ice priestess Miranda Priestly (Beth Leavel).' | kerryreid
Jones is Black, and the decision to move away from a white woman in the role, as Shapiro told me in a conversation a few months ago, was deliberate. Similarly, the role of Emily Charlton, the first assistant who is desperate to go to Paris Fashion Week with Miranda, is played by an Asian actor, Megan Masako Haley.
Similarly, there is a real opportunity for the show to demonstrate how the tension and fear between Andy and Emily could be at least partially the result of two women of color being set against each other by an older successful white woman. Miranda may rightly see some of herself in Andy , but she’ll never have the same experiences as a woman of color, and it feels like the musical sidesteps that reality.
brought a little bit of class consciousness to the relationship between Elle and Emmett. Andy does have a fling with rising writer Christian Thompson , but her relationships with longtime beau Nate and Lauren and Kayla, her roommates/friends from childhood feel underdeveloped.
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