Humans Breakfast scene - Revision

Very stereotypical white middle class family 

Joe and Sophie are wearing dressing gowns vs Anita wearing maid like clothes

Natural lighting through the windows of the large house 

Large kitchen all clean and tidy

Anita is cleaning the table, pouring orange juice 

Sophie is excited vs Mattie is grumpy - stereotypical of a teenager her age

The scene is very unconventional for a sci-fi show as it is a very traditional straightforward breakfast

The colourful large breakfast is spread out across the table, most people do not have this large array of food spread out every morning - hypereality

"she is not a slave" - Laura 

"thats exactly what she is" - Mattie


This is an American British Co-production, which explains why the show is set in and around London as this is an expectation  of a British TV show

Ensemble cast of radically different characters allows the show to appeal to a wide range of different audiences, maximising profit. 

Paul Gilroy - postcolonialism. Hierachies of culture. Anita is represented as a slave, her costume is completley differnet to the Hawkins family, a bland blue and plain and totally practical maid type outfit. 

She is ethnically east Asian while the Hawkins family are white, a clear allegory of slavery. Anita is represented as the other.

The Hawkins Family are a stereotypical, hegemonic white middle class family

Mattie - stereotypical teenage girl: moody, swearing, aggressive, grumpy, 'Tomboy'

Toby - Stereotypical teenage boy: sexual attracted to Anita, awkward

Joe - Stereotypical dad: bad jokes 

Laura - stressed alot

The setting of the dining room is a highly stereotypical middle class setting 

The luxious and wide spread of food indicates the Hawkins family are finacially well off

MES of art work on the wall connotes both wealth and sophistication 

Nuclear family, a mum, dad, and 3 children - a hegemonically 'perfect' family. This is a stark binary opposition to the character of Anita, who cannot have children. However Anita desires nothing more than having a mother daughter relationship, esphically with Sophie and yet is forced to play the role of a mother without any of the positive element.

Anita must take on stereotypically maternal tasks such as cleaning, cooking, serving food. Anita is too perfect - hyperreal and is beyond perfection, so much so that she annoys and aggrivates the mother. Anita offers the Hawkins family a hypereal version of life, a perfect world in which would not normally be practical or possible on a day to day basis. But ultimatly this is mundane.

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