YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ATTACK THE BLOCK. I watched that film and loved the weird alien designs. Also one of the few movies I saw where a kid gets decapitated lmao. Heard they're making a big budget sequel, but I never exactly did hear what happened with that.
I’m American and I usually just watch stuff that doesn’t take place in America because it’s more interesting. I don’t watch a lot of movies or shows all that much.
But I guess NCIS: Los Angeles is the best portrayal when pulling something out of my head.
I guess Hamilton too. Hamilton is amazing.
Take a shot every time I say "culture."
There's a strange disconnect they you feel when you're the child of immigrants, that I know a lot of people can speak to, when in comes to cultural identity. My parents are Nigerian but I was born and raised in the U.S. So, I have three layers of culture to pull from when it comes to my cultural identity: Nigerian, American, and Black/African American culture. And while those last two overlap, there are some apparent differences between them like the use of AAVE and the cultural significance of hair. For the majority of my life, I've identified more with American culture, feeling that Nigerian culture was no more than a garnish or accent on my "average American life" and that black culture was very far removed because most of the black people I grew up around were Nigerians who never full assimilated into black culture (because they were adult immigrants). So I sit here as an adult, American mostly, but fully aware of my blackness and slightly saddened but accepting of my disconnect with my Nigerian side.
All this to say that I wish I could point out a piece of media, not to say that the media that would check all my boxes doesn't exist (I'm sure it does, I just haven't come across it), but that at the moment, I can't. Media has always spoken to me in different ways outside of my cultural identity; speaking more to my personal beliefs, personality, or likes.
American culture is also very very very diverse and very vast. So I can’t pinpoint exactly what portrays American culture perfectly.
I honestly have no idea.
The Simpsons were REALLY ahead of their time. Episodes like Homer’s Phobia, The Cartridge Family, Much Apu About Nothing, Lisa’s Pony. The writers were really brave to bring controversial and sensitive topics to light. While being fair by showing both sides of the argument and all whilst keeping the show funny and lighthearted. I miss the oldies they don’t make episodes like those anymore.
Anyone who thinks it was a show for kids didn’t pay attention to all the social commentary (or was just opposed to it), but they satirized a lot of issues in a really broad way. Take Homer’s Phobia. At the end of it, Homer still isn’t over his homophobia really, he likes John, despite his sexuality. A liberal viewer can watch and see a brilliant skewering of bigoted views, while a conservative viewer can watch and agree that individuals are fine but they don’t have to love “the gays”. That message might not hold up so well today, but to broadcast that across the US in the ‘90s was pretty radical.
I've yet to see a movie about Italian Americans that isn't about the mafia or Mario ;w;
That being said Mafia II was fantastic, they really did their research
The only piece of foreign media that had some Polish stuff in it I can think of is that time terf queen added a Polish cleaner to one of her books who had a made up name that made no sense and sounded more Russian to be perfectly honest and was confused about a word in English that is pretty much the same in Polish, so, yeah...
Oh god... yeah, Polish people are so under-represented in British media, even though they're probably our biggest non-British white ethnic group? Like Polish people are such a big part of Britain, practically any mid-sized town has at least one shop that sells Polish food and stuff. That passage by the Terf-queen was just cringe... Why make the one Polish character a cleaner? 
(I feel like most of the Polish people I know personally work as Designers...)
Anything by Shane Meadows depicts urban British culture quite accurately. Especially 'This is England'. The 80s in the UK for example was not all neon.
Does internet culture count? 
Because What Happens Next3 totally nails it 
I´m german and you find a lot of media which only portraits german culture with a lot
of (ugly) stereotypes. They did a good job in Breaking Bad though, especially the
german workers who built the meth lab
Not gonna lie, as an Argentinian seeing the obligatory scene of the superhero kissing the girl with Nada Personal by Soda Estereo was peak for me, besides obviously all the hints to latinamerican music and the Chapulín Colorado.
To me not only I really liked it by how well arranged the music was, the structure wasn't even like... "typical average hero movie" but the nostalgic kind of superhero movie. When the neighborhood came to help the family, offered food and such, it really reminded me of the train scene in the original Spiderman movie, which I grew up with.
Argentina is very weird in culture, there is so much stuff mixed up, I personally get satisfied with the average Latinamerican representation that we all latinos can agree is good or at least a stereotype that we in fact know in real life, but when I focus on my own country, especially local tv shows or movies...
They don't feel "Argentinian" enough, is like its lacking something and usually that missing thing I can see it in people that aren't from here but for some reason got interested in the culture, I don't know what they do but its like I see them and just "That person is argentinian, give them the nationality"
Some people claim that Evita was a good representation, yes, of a historical moment. But current or... daily life Argentina is hard to be represented, I don't know in which game there was an Argentinian, we were all excited but once we heard him he sounded more Colombian than Argentinian lol.
Except for the movie "Encanto" and some other series (maybe there are more, I guess), but my culture is represented in a not-so-loved way and I understand it. This is a reflection of what has happened from the 70s onwards...
I am Colombian and I recently saw a movie where it was supposedly set in a region of my country where there were people dressed in summer clothes when in reality it rains almost every day and there are modern buildings with internet. XD
I've been watching TPB on Netflix over the past few days (well, "watching" about as closely as somebody with the attention span of a golden retreiver on crack can, anyway) and it still surprises me to be watching a TV show and thinking "Hey, I know that guy!" and "Hey, I know that place!"
I don't know any of the main characters, but I know and grew up with a lot of the secondaries and people in crowds. I also knew a lot of people that lived in Woodbine, where the first few seasons were filmed.
