How do you make a cerebral drug dealer story? As it stands the show mythologizing and romanticizing guys who are selling poison to their own people.
Whats got me fucked up is no one is concerned or commented on how this display negatively influences young black men.
As I stated in reply 443, it's quite obvious that Big Meech was a cut above the rest when it comes to intelligence, survival skills, cunning, and his ability to convince and influence people. For that reason, BMF could be more layered and nuanced similar to Snowfall. Still, because Lil Meech's acting skills are limited and the Flenorys are listed as executive producers, BMF is a by-the-numbers hood show, that keeps the Flenorys and friends looking good and their rivals being portrayed as live-action cartoons.
Snowfall didn't glorify Franklin, he wasn't shown sipping champagne with topless strippers or having threesomes with random light-skinned or exotic women in luxury hotel rooms at the end of the night, hell the woman he ended up with was widely criticized for being overwhelmingly unattractive, other than that Franklin was constantly working, watching his back, getting the shit kicked out of him, getting shot, trying to deal with conflict between organizations all while having the US government literally up his ass and he even saw first hand the effects of his own product on his childhood sweetheart. Franklin was not a redeemable character nor a particularly likable one. He didn't get turned into a noble guy or tragic hero, he made his choices, gained a lot, lost even more. Even in the end, he didn't die so he wasn't timestamped as a mythologized hood legend, he didn't go to jail, where he can be romanticized by idiot rappers singing "Free Saint". He became a bum that hood niggas didn't know was once a kingpin and didn't care to learn. The final scene is him walking off into the distance as the Sheriff's office comes to take the house due to unpaid taxes.
While I understand that Meech did like trappings of his lifestyle such as the cars, clothes, homes, and hoes, there is still a way to show all of that with layers, and nuance and not just make Big Meech into a white meat babyface when dude is truly a heel.