Viewers watching the opening credits of the new NBC series Inconceivable, which takes place in a fertility clinic, are given an early warning that the show does not treat its subject with subtlety: large sperm swim languorously around the names of the lead cast members, followed by images of pipettes piercing human eggs during in vitro fertilization procedures. The show’s first scene focuses on an anxious white couple eagerly awaiting the birth of their child, who has been carried by a white surrogate. When the baby emerges, however, it is clearly biracial, and the parents, aghast, storm out of the … Continue reading Hollywood’s Fertile Imagination