Our TV shows need political diversity too. Jane the Virgin is helping to fix that

[Commentary] We have a tendency to think of diversity in film and television only in terms of race, gender, religion, and sexuality. And those are important places to have diverse representations of people from all walks of life. But there's so much more to diversity than just those categories! There's diversity of class, for instance, something TV and movies have actually gotten worse at over time. There's diversity of geographical location. And then there's diversity of political background. Hollywood doesn't like to make its projects overtly political, but when characters express a political point-of-view at all, it tends to default to a kind of mushy progressivism. But maybe just don't ask about it. What's interesting about the first episode of The CW's wonderful new dramedy Jane the Virgin is how thoroughly it smashes the standard models for TV, but without calling attention to itself.