I don't have to tell you that Hollywood is out of touch and disconnected from regular Americans. I'm pretty sure at least three-quarters of my writing on this site is made up of that very point.
But I think it's become even more identifiable as of late.
My friend Sydney Watson recently made a YouTube video that I found interesting to watch. She comments on the reboot of the show "Malcolm in the Middle," a sitcom about a family that is tight yet dysfunctional. Back in the day, the show was a mega-hit with some of the most hilarious moments ever put on television. To this day, clips of the show still appear randomly on social media because of their perfectly executed humor and relatability.
Yet, as Watson notes, the reboot is... well, a Hollywood reboot. They restructured characters, introduced ridiculously out-of-tune plot elements, and effectively took the show into "modern" territory. This does, in fact, include a non-binary daughter, a best friend now being gay, and a throuple made of men.
According to the writers Tracy Katsky and Linwood Boomer, putting in that good ol' "representation" was a priority to them, as reported by Deadline:
KATSKY: I gotta tell you, it’s a really important thing to us. Three out of four of our kids are queer, and without making it a thing and without making an issue, I think it’s really nice to have a character that, that’s just a facet of their personality as opposed to the entire story. So we’re really happy, and I’m glad to hear that you liked it.
BOOMER: Also, I mean, it’s in there because I don’t know what else to write except the stuff that’s really happening around me.
What a major tell.
Firstly, I think it's funny that in the minds of Hollywood writers, this always means a focus on where people put their junk or how they pretend it's something it's not. Nothing else ever gets considered.
That said, how many families do you know with kids who are "non-binary" or transgender?
I've only met one... ten years ago.
I know a few people who are gay and a few who are lesbians, but they make up a tiny percentage of the people I know.
Over the past decade, I've traveled to a lot of places, and the people I've met over the course of that time are rarely in the LGBTQ+ camp. They exist, of course, but they don't exactly make up a solid chunk of the population... unless you live in certain circles.
Hollywood is living in a time that everyone else is moving on from, or has in a big way.
As I wrote in March, the transgender movement has lost so much steam that it's more or less done as a cultural powerhouse, and aside from some holdouts in blue states, there's not much more to the movement than rage and crying... which I guess is their default expression for everything:
According to recent data from Germany, treatments for gender dysphoria are spiraling downward, especially among females.
The data shows "persistence" rates — the continued diagnosis of individuals, including children who have been prescribed treatments for their transitioning — are falling off, and are now below 50 percent. Women especially have the lowest persistence rates at 27.3 percent, with desistance at 72.7 percent.
Read: The 'Trans' Movement Is Almost Over Now
Much of the world has moved on, and even those who once identified as some form of gender fluid aren't even bothering to continue with the charade. The only place where transgenderism seems to be ongoing is in the Hollywood bubble, where the kids of celebrities seem to be transgender in large quantity, which tells me some interesting things about how LA's glitterati are raising their kids more like accessories that make a statement than actual kids.
If Malcom's family were real, the chances of there being that much LGBT-infusion would be far, far smaller. As Watson points out, there have to be some drastic and uncharacteristic changes to the way some characters think and act to make room for it.
In short, Hollywood isn't just trying to continue a trend that's more or less dead in 2026; they're so behind the times in their ideological bubble that they don't know the times have passed them by.
This explains a lot about Hollywood's writing mentality.
