This past Sunday NBC premiered a new movie, an updating of the 1980s series Knight Rider, about a young crimefighter aided by a supercar with artificial intelligence. The remake takes up the story of some of the characters’ children, now young adults, as they move into roles analogous to those of their parents in the original show.

It is, of course, a romance with an entirely fanciful premise with possible positive meanings at heart, and must be accepted as such if one is to appreciate it at all.

Too bad the film’s producers failed to do that. An  early scene establishing the important character of a female FBI agent shows her concluding an interracial, lesbian one-night stand.

Now that’s realism!

Now we’ll believe in an artificially intelligent, nanotech supercar piloted by a touseled-haired mesomorph, now that they’ve acknowledged that there is such a thing as lesbianism.

Yes, that is precisely what a nitwit might think.