Awake not Woke!

Yes, it is woke. It was made with the “help” of Irish, British, and Spanish taxpayer money. As if poor little HBO at Warner Discovery needed public funding to afford a series. Good joke! tell me another one. But is it good quality? Not really. Since it’s woke as hell, the “good” men are stereotyped as dumb, weak, and easily manipulated, while the smart or powerful men are portrayed as the bad ones. On top of that, and this was mentioned in the other comment, which ties in perfectly, forced diversity is obvious. That alone wouldn’t be the main issue, but they also gave characters different accents, making them hard to understand, supposedly for “period authenticity,” while at the same time pushing forced diversity, which completely breaks that excuse.

At least three seasons did not have woke, and were entertaining.

This is an extremely well-written and absorbing TV series if you like a middle ages setting that has lots of intrigue and good storytelling. It's not family friendly because of all the sex and violence. I stopped watching after the third season because the violence was too much for me. But I saw no wokeness being pushed during that time, just lots of R-rated material that would be difficult to explain to children. As everyone knows, seasons 7 and 8 wrapped up the series with very disappointing storytelling, and ruined the whole show for many. (I was long gone by then.)

Watched this long ago, it was only mild woke

I watched this years ago, and I remember guessing that the bad guy would NOT turn out to be the middle eastern man people were worried about (and I think the second season was around 2001-2002). The pretty blond female was the second season main villain, surprise surprise. It was an exciting, innovative series, and not ultra woke like today's Hollywood.

Classic 80's slasher. The acting isn't the greatest, but if your a horror fan it is a lot of fun. Some pretty decent kills and if you find the uncut version there is some great blood and gore FX for the time, even if you can only find the heavily cut R version it's still better than average slasher for it's time. The story is nothing too original but it serves it's purpose.