One of my least favorite tropes is when a writer or director says, "How can i make this character an obious idiot? Oh, i can give them X accent."
How original embracing the classist stereotype of American Southerners being dumb hicks or a black person speaking with shitty AAVE that the writer clearly doesn't understand.
An accent should tell you one thing about a character; where they are from, not how smart or trustworthy, or good they are.















