For my entertainment suggestion, I recommend Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Originally by Fox, but now picked up by NBC, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a comedy about the ninety-ninth police precinct in Brooklyn, New York. Going off of this description alone, it wouldn't be difficult to assume that it's just shallow, cheap humor with no real message. But that is just not the case.
This show depicts much needed diversity, including latinx and black actors who are also LGBT+. These two are rarely depicted now-a-days on regular television, let alone together. Brooklyn Nine-Nine also somehow manages to not have a forced diversity to it; the characters' races and sexual identifications are touched on every now and again in meaningful and real ways, but they aren't played up for entertainment. For example, while the police chief is gay, he's happily married, and the subject does not often come up. They do, however, address the backlash he has faced in his workplace from his personal life.
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