Where Are All of the Black People in ‘Lupin’?

Netflix’s newest bingeable heist series plays with race, but insists on doing so in a lily-white version of Paris.

Tirhakah Love
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6 min readJan 16, 2021

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Tirhakah Love
LEVEL
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African from Texas• Staff Writer at LEVEL • Black politics, Celebrity interviews, TV & Film Criticism • Previously: MTV News, San Francisco Chronicle