This interview contains spoilers for Sunday’s episode of “Survivor’s Remorse.”

“Do you know what every dark-skin girl thinks when she sees only light-skin girls in magazines?” Missy Vaughn (Teyonah Parris) asked on “Survivor’s Remorse” on Sunday night. “They think their dark skin has made them invisible.”

“Survivor’s Remorse,” about a family learning to deal with life in the spotlight after one of its members, Cam Calloway (Jessie T. Usher), becomes a professional basketball player, has examined issues including homophobia and classism over the course of its three seasons on Starz. On Sunday, it took on another longstanding flash point among blacks that nevertheless is rarely addressed in TV drama: colorism and how it shapes prevailing commercial ideals of beauty, especially in regard to African-American women.

In the episode, Ms. Parris’s character, a media consultant, arrives at a photo shoot to find the model she hired has been replaced by one with a lighter complexion. Incensed, she cites a notorious historical tool of discrimination among blacks before firing the model.

“You’re telling me that in Atlanta, Ga., the black people capital of America, the modeling agencies couldn’t find one other model who came in on the dark side of the paper bag test?” she asked.