Something on PBS Worth Watching (for once)

Years ago (probably around 2015 or 2016), PBS stopped being a publicly funded station interested in US and world history and literature, and became a left-wing propaganda tool, featuring primarily "racial theory" and anti-US propaganda. In the "olden days," I used to regularly seek out PBS non-fiction shows (though not British comedies/dramas---just not that interested), but since 2016, they've been unwatchable because of their overt and intellectually sloppy Communist slant.

Just this weekend, though, I was pleasantly surprised when I was channel-surfing and came across "Dante: Inferno to Paradise." I hadn't read Dante at all since my college days, and didn't remember much of what I'd read then. I remembered the Purgatory/Hell/Heaven theme, but, frankly, wasn't paying much attention as an 18- or 19-year-old. I also did not remember anything at all about Dante's being banned from his home city and being forced into exile, which is when he started to write "The Divine Comedy." Very interestingly presented program, both historically and literarily. A sign of good TV: It made me go to my library and take out my old "Portable Dante":

Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood
for I had wandered off from the straight path.

How hard it is to tell what it was like,
this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn
(the thought of it brings back all my old fears)...

I'm also thankful that this program did NOT have some insipid (or "racially appropriate" in any way) "host" that the camera focused on as he/she walked along Dante's geographical path, making efforts to keep the wind out of his/her (dread)locks. Which seems to have been the focus of most PBS programs recently. I don't CARE about your train trip or your trekking through city streets or how you got to meet the local librarian. I don't care about YOU. I just want to know about the historical thing that you're supposedly the reporter for!

This Dante program, on the contrary, focused on Dante himself, sans "TV show narrator travels"! And the usually stupid "acting reenactments" were kept to a minimum, and the graphics about the visions of Purgatory/Hell/Heaven were decently (and sometimes spookily) done!

I'd recommend this show: Dante: Inferno to Paradise

Is there hope for PBS in the future?? (Similarly hopeful is another historical show on PBS --- "Ancient Roads: From Christ to Constantine"; I watched one episode, and, believe it or not, not a single token, non-historical DEI black person showed up! I was shocked!)