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Good dark humor

I’m blown away by how this series writes its stuff. Every episode feels like a nonstop meme machine, hopping from one crazy but believable moment (well, sort of) to the next, dropping jokes that are funny and make you think.
What the hell am I watching!?!?
It’s amazing.

The show is constantly taking shots at everything and doesn’t leave a single angle untouched, so I wouldn’t label its progressive elements as “woke" and if anything in there comes off as woke, it’s almost definitely there just so they can make fun of it later. It makes fun of literally everything and turns every scene into well-executed dark humor.

Watched this one a while ago and forgot to post the review so here's what I remember. It's Disney so you already know woke is a focus.
Way over the top DEI casting. Mixed race couple background characters. Main character has 2 moms. It's stated that most universe everything is free promoting the nonexistent delusional socialist utopia. The usual feminist undertones. Despite that it's not really preachy about any of it and I still thought it was a decent movie. The acting is mostly good, the
FX are well done and the story and writing aren't' too bad though it does get a little convoluted with a lot going on. It should be noted that the Wandavision miniseries is pretty much required viewing to fully understand this one though.

So listed as a crime thriller there is also a fair amount of decent humor mixed in as well. Great acting performances and while there is some
stretches in the writing it's nothing to bad and mostly well done. While his mental illness is never stated it seems like he has some sort of
schizophrenia. Having experience with someone with this I will say the depiction is very well done. The neighbor seems to be reliving days gone by or possibly not able to get on the police force so he has problems of his own. The Simon character witness a crime but nobody believes him so he seeks the help of his neighbor to solve it. Pretty fun enjoyable little crime drama. As for woke there is a short scene with a pimp who seems to be a ridiculous girlboss and her two large male thugs. It's a little silly but a very short scene. There is also some minor DEI in some of the background and secondary characters. The detective handling the missing persons case and also apparently homicide is a Spanish female. Race is never an issue and she never goes girlboss or feminist and is a pretty realistic depiction. All in all a good movie with minimal woke.

Soft fantasy sci-fi done right (up to season 4)

This is hands down one of the best soft sci-fi/fantasy series to watch right now. It’s got its own brand of progressive touches, yet the narrative hits the mark overall.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that it has some very progressive elements, like the inclusion of a lesbian character and William’s arc with her, focusing on his feelings and coming out. But honestly, it all feels pretty organic, at least from what I’ve seen up through episode four of season five. With that said, I’m not going to let those elements ruin the overall story, which so far has handled them in a fairly natural way within the narrative.

That said, what is really bad and super cringe is that the actors look older than their parents. Even though there are a few moments where it seems like they managed to age them properly, most of the time it just doesn’t work and it pulls you out of the story. It honestly makes you think they should’ve moved the plot forward and had them already in college or working, instead of still being in high school.

Let’s be clear: this isn’t hard sci-fi, and it’s not aimed at an audience looking for some deep, high-impact revelation. This is popcorn entertainment; basically, you could say it’s kind of a guilty pleasure. Even so, I hope they respect what they’ve been doing up to this point, even if there are moments that make you think, “okay, they’re trying to send a message here.”

Maybe this comes more from a personal wish to see more audiovisual projects at this level that aren’t so heavy-handed with political propaganda. I really hope they keep the ending focused on entertainment rather than a political statement. Given how well it’s been executed overall, I just hope we can enjoy it while it lasts—and that Netflix doesn’t completely screw it up like it has in the past with other shows like The Witcher.

EDIT:
I was wrong, they went FULL WOKE in the last episodes of the final season. What had been relatively tolerable (at least for those who were putting up with it) got dumped all at once in the last season. Not surprising at all coming from Netflix.

Bottom line, if, like me, you got hooked by the first two seasons, and watched seasons three and four while kind of looking the other way, and you just want to know how the story ends, you’re going to have to put up with the extra bucket of crap they piled onto a story that was originally well put together.

If there’s a spin-off and they keep going down the same propaganda-heavy path, they’ll sink just like everyone else who’s done the same thing. Netflix might think it’s king right now, and maybe it is, especially with all the talk about the Warner Discovery acquisition, but even kings fall.

Double O woke

Spoiler alert

Q is gay
Moneypenny is Black
007 is replaced by a British Michelle Obama

Not shocking considering Daniel Craig goes on to make a movie called “queer”

Marketed as a werewolf horror, this is a very low budget film and it looks like it. The acting is not very good, the story makes little sense, editing is
very amateur and there is no flow to the scenes. Everything looks cheap and amateurish. I made it to the 40 minute mark and there is no horror and no werewolves to be seen. It's basically a loser divorced drunk hallucinating things. While it's not overly woke it takes place in small town Oregon and the lead white male's 'love interest' is Asian and his
main competition for promotion in the police force is a smart competent black officer, so maybe a little DEI casting choices there.

Season 5 is woken garbage

Season 5 is mega woke garbage. Every man is incompetent, and the female MC is a Mary Sue. Her previous husband is a bad angry man also republican. Every woman is competent, and every man is incompetent. It's obvious what the writers try to do.

Season 1-3 are great and woke free. Worth mentioning, every Fargo season is a complete different story.

Not woke until S5

This show was 10/10 until the end of season 4 where Ragnar meets his demise. If you like Vikings, I still recommend watching until Season 4 as it contains no woke elements. The story is essentially over after season 4, but the makers kept going for some reason and added some dogshit woke elements. There's a lesbian relationship is between Lagertha and Astrid (shield maiden)

I forgot how much I hated the first one until I started watching this one. I will say this one is maybe a little better than the first one but that's not
saying much. There's nothing really woke, other than maybe the focus switch from the brother to the sister who now sports a terrible boys haircut and looks like a 12 year old boy. Maybe that's why the grabber went for his this time, he got confused. The acting is ok about the same as the first one but the writing again sucks. This is a blatant ripoff of Nightmare on Elm Street right down to getting hurt in your dreams hurts you in real life. There's even a ripoff scene of her friends watching her fight the invisible grabber in her sleep and getting thrown around. It's unoriginal nonsense. There is some decent blood and gore FX but it's
pretty much all ghosts in dreams. The Grabber is pretty ineffective and nothing really happens to anybody until the very end of the movie. There's no scares and despite a decent performance by Hawke the Grabber is just not scary. The ice skating scene is unintentionally hilarious looking. If there is another one of these I don't think I
will be wasting my time. Unless I forget again how bad they are.

Nothing woke. Korean film listed as dark comedy, action, crime, thriller that takes place in the 70's and deals with a communist group hijacking a plane to take hostages to North Korea. I found this boring and the comedy is way to on the nose. Literally everyone in this is a complete bumbling incompetent fool. It wasn't funny just annoying and it's impossible to take anything seriously when the focus is on over the top dumb comedy and everything else is secondary. For me this was a big miss.

Traveling in a London circus bumper car isn't too funny

Time Travel is Dangerous! bills itself as a comedy and makes no excuses for it: the jokes are kind of in-your-face. I didn't find the movie funny and I don't even know why. The jokes are there and it's a quirky film, just no humor in it for me.

I was going to discount this movie as watchable, not too serious and not worth any type of re-watch, but as it went on, the film grew on me. Everything about it is pedestrian in a way, but it kept on keeping on and I kept watching. Soon, I started to like the two girl characters and even their misfit science buddies. By the end, I think it's a fun little "indie" type of film and I might want to see it again. Worth checking out. No political correctness or woke subtexts at all.

This is one of those parody horror movies that's all comedy not horror. While there's nothing really woke it's not that good either. There are a few
decent laughs but mostly it's just silly dumb humor. All the jokes go on for just a little too long and by the time the movie's half over your already
bored. You've seen most of these jokes before and there's nothing really new here. If you really like parodies maybe this is worth a watch. Nothing woke that I saw.