I may be biased because I've heard Mac talk to me at lengths about the Underwoods, but I don't see them as shallow at all, and ngl I don't enjoy being pitted against Mac this way. You can compliment my writing without putting down my friend's. Just like Cy & Lynn's race and class matter to their story, so do the Underwoods'. Alec comes from some fucked up aristocratic white British family, and it shows. Isabelle is very sheltered by her lifestyle, and yet extremely vulnerable because of it at the same time because it's infinitely easier to run away from some run-of-the-mill middle class dad than it would from someone with the resources and influence Alec has. Isabelle's intricate religious trauma and hangups read to me as very real, and again, not shallow at all. Mac hasn't publicly posted a lot of stories about the Underwoods yet, so I'd be grateful if people waited before they made any shitty judgements simply because the characters are white and conventionally attractive. If anything, saying this kind of harsh stuff before having hardly seen much material is demonstrative of shallowness.