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A great show that degenerates into parody

The show is magnificent during the first 3 seasons, although there are feminist undertones present from the very beginning, i.e. the presence of shieldmaidens whom historically never existed in any culture, especially the Scandinavian culture. And the other element is the blatant anti-Christian subtexts.

At the end of season 4 the show truly degenerates into just feminist propaganda, anti-religion, a perversion of Scandinavian history, you have a lesbian relationship with the queen of Kattegat that goes nowhere, shoehorned in for nothing, you have anti-male speech by female leaders and you have a small scene that plays as a joke regarding a transexual prostitute in a muslim Northern Africa.

There are amazing moments and arcs throughout all this especially Bjorn's arc and Ivar's arc, after Ragnar's arc is ended, so the show is not by a long shot a shit show, the production design is awesome although not entirely historically accurate, the music is amazing, the acting is top-notch, only the modern propaganda is nailed with a hammer and it takes away from an otherwise great show.

All you need is a terrible cast and crappy plot

To disinfect a film from any wokeness, just write yourself a terrible script and get your crap cast to run 15 minute monologs about who the hell knows what. Gemma (Alexandra Bard) is his assistant / secretary / lover / confidant, an actress who only sucks just a little less than Doctor Henry (Robert Brettenaugh).

The film starts out with Gemma's terrible acting as they fart around doing stuff from the movie The Fly, then it morphs into kind of nothing in the middle, followed by what could be a rock star heroin withdrawal as Gemma sticks patiently by the Doctor's side while he says he will rip her apart and drink her blood.

I hated this film.

There is a good bit of DEI casting in the secondary characters but nothing too bad. The villain is a rich white male but his wife is good and
needs to teach him a lesson even though she's just as greedy as he is. The acting is ok but the writing is so implausible and not very good. These two bungling idiots are so dumb they would of realistically been caught 10 times over. They need to break in to a top of the line most secure safe that changes it's combination every 60 seconds and sends the code to a key fob or an app on your phone. Seriously? That's the worst safe security system you can have. This makes it much easier to break into the vault, you just have to steal the fob or the phone. This guy can hack into his security system at will and so whatever he wants and not get caught but never thinks to hack into the phone app? Apps are notorious for security flaws and making them vulnerable to hacking. Then there is the safe DNA scan to gain entry. I won't spoil it for anyone but if you see it's so stupid, that's not how DNA markers work, again worst security ever!!?? There's a lot of that kind of writing here. Despite that annoyances there are some genuine laughs and funny moments and we did make it all the way through. It is still watchable as a one time holiday film but not something I would ever watch again.

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.