The tenth iteration of the “Housewives” franchise frequently nails a difficult art: incorporating racial politics into the sketchy morality of a guilty pleasure.
In its fourth season, the Netflix cartoon doubles down on the idea that identity is something that cannot be neatly defined, and confronts criticisms of the show’s racial politics by turning them into plot points.
Depicting a relationship between a high-school teacher and her student, the show takes aim at a permitted perversion, a subject of memes and giddy Post headlines.