Hawk Heights

Hawk Heights was a fantasy soap opera series created\* by Eliana Harvey, that premiered on May 29th, 2023, before the series premiere of Lou. The series was projected to be one of the most expensive FOXIS soap operas of all time, before its cancellation.

\*There are rumors that Eliana stole the idea from another writer. This has yet to be confirmed.

## Synopsis

Ruthie Nova is a new student at the prestigious boarding school, Hawk Heights. From what her family has told her, the school is just like any other boarding school. Ruthie is later proven wrong when she discovers that her friends and herself have super powers, and they all hail from families that had power-wielding abilities. Throughout the series, Ruthie and her friends will continue practicing their powers and use them in times of need, especially when they face the mighty powerful Grey Hawk and his family lineage.

## Controversy and cancellation

Due to mostly negative reception, a cliche story line, and horrifically low viewership, Hawk Heights was cancelled on May 31st, 2023, after its 3-episode run on TV. The other 22 episodes were made available to stream on FOXIS.com, and production for the second part of season one shut down. The soap opera Lou moved up to Hawk Height's time slot, and other programs were played in Lou's original time slot. Another reason why Hawk Heights was cancelled may be due to Elliana Harvey's transphobic, anti-Black, and misogynist comments she made on her social media accounts.

### White washing

On January 19th, Alexa's Journal actor Odin Young, who plays De'Wayne in the series, revealed in several Instagram stories that many of the Hawk Heights characters were supposed to be more diverse, according to their official character designs. He stated that he was selected to play Wade Wolfe, a werewolf character who was supposed to be Black. Instead, Odin was replaced by Oliver Rees, who is White. Rees also called out Eliana Harvey for the final casting decision, revealing he was supposed to play a different character in the series. Cast member Sam Berry, who played DJ "Beetz", also came out with Whitewashing allegations, revealing Harvey wanted to make DJ a White man.

> Almost a week before we started filming, Ms. Harvey begged the character designers AND the writers to switch DJ's race. She told them that she was "deathly afraid" of men (specifically men of color for some reason) and she would rather DJ be White. Fortunately the writers and designers said no, but that didn't mean other characters were impacted (Wade Wolfe for example). Eliana is racist AF, and I'm tired that people are pretending she's not, in the name of her transmisogynist "feminism".
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> Sam Berry, 1/19/24

Maya Greene, who plays Rubina Waye, also accused Harvey of changing Wade Wolfe's body type, according to original character sketches she received from character designers.

> So you're telling me we could've had a plus-sized AND Black werewolf character in this show??? And we got this twink in the final product??? Yikes all around.
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> Maya Greene, 1/20/24

### Transphobia

While allegations of body shaming and anti-Black racism were still circling around Harvey, cast member Corinna Smith accused her of transphobia.

> Ruthie was supposed to be non-binary, like me. Ruthie was supposed to be one of the first non-binary leads in a soap opera on TV. Ruthie was supposed to show that trans folks were just as worthy of love and respect as cis folks. But last minute, that was all changed, in order to suit Eliana's transphobic, racist, and sexist fantasies. I'm ashamed of working with her but at least I got paid a good sum of cash.
>
> 1/21/24, Corinna Smith

## Main cast

* Corinna Smith as Ruthie Nova
* Sam Berry as Drew Jimenez/DJ “Beetz”
* Maya Greene as Rubina Waye
* Oliver Rees as Wade Wolfe