Whitechapel

s1 woke-0 overall-4
I would say there is nothing woke in season 1. There are a few female officers but they are barely there and very few. The same with minority representation, very few and well within reality. Mostly good season with pretty good acting and only some minor writing issues.
s2 woke-1 overall-3
This is a step down from the first season. The decision to use another copycat with the Ripper expert from season 1 returning and is an expert again on this one is a bit implausible. The writing overall is not as good and there's a good bit that's just not believable. The police are a bit frustrating at how cowardly and ineffectual they are but I guess that's what happens when you have an unarmed police force. It's still watchable but not as good as season 1. Woke creeps in a bit here as well. There seems to be an effort to cast females in a lot of the supporting roles. There is a storyline where one of the original killers was gay so the copycat is pretending to be gay too. He is messing around with another character who is a girl pretending to be an underage boy. It's a minor plotline that takes up very little time and is not the focus of the season.
s3 woke-2 overall 2
This season goes to a new format, where the previous ones were 3 episodes with one case across the whole season now it's 6 episodes with 3 cases each taking place over 2 episodes. The writing takes another hit this time with characters doing dumb things and some pretty big stretches in believability. They also decide to stick with every case tying into a past case gimmick. This makes everything even more unrealistic and would of worked better to just go with a normal murder case instead. The ripper expert is now hired on as a research expert and becomes more annoying and out of place. The first case or
episodes 1-2 permanently introduce a new overweight body positive female to the team and a mixed race Asian female forensic expert for the arc to add to the female morgue attendant already in the cast. Getting even heavier on the female casting now. There is also a nasty entitled feminist type character for this arc and the usual overrepresentation of females and blacks in the secondary and background characters. The killer is so obvious and easy to pick out in about 2 seconds in this
arc. The 2nd case or Ep 3-4 introduce yet another female detective for the arc. The writing seems to be getting worse as it goes along. Ridiculous leaps in logic and highly unlikely coincidences keep happening. They are now investigating murders based on random world history murder cases with magically exact circumstances most of which are completely made up. 2nd case or Episodes 5-6. At this point the researcher character has become very annoying and I actually can't stand him anymore. The constant linking of cases to the past and using that to steer investigation has become ridiculous and makes every investigational procedure absurd. It's become tired and
overused. This season seems to want to push further away from the original police procedural and into supernatural/horror territory. A victim that almost is killed is a completely unrealistic for the situation angry feminist type. More and more of these types are showing up this season. The writing in this arc is completely absurd, lazy and unrealistic. A scene with a dead victim that is visibly breathing comes to mind. This season was a struggle to get through and I'm not going to bother with season 4. I would suggest watching season 1 maybe season 2 if you like detective stories but stop after that. It's unfortunate as the 1st season had so much promise.