Rick and Morty
Science makes sense, family doesn't.
Rick is a mentally-unbalanced but scientifically gifted old man who has recently reconnected with his family. He spends most of his time involving his young grandson Morty in dangerous, outlandish adventures throughout space and alternate universes. Compounded with Morty's already unstable family life, these events cause Morty much distress at home and school.
Wokeness: 20%
Overall Score: 80%
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Tonic1080
Guilty Woke-ish Pleasure
While this show is hilarious and makes fun of everyone, it is still built on pandering to woke stereotypes essential to get most media published these days (but yet still making fun of those same stereotypes....I'M SO CONFLICTED!!!). Male characters are generally bad guys or incompetent while female characters tend to be strong, capable, and independent (while still mocking those points of them).
Created: 09-10-2022
Trevlander
Created: 11-29-2022
john r
Created: 03-31-2023
John Doe
The show is OK, but I don't see any wokeness
I don't get where the other reviewers are seeing wokeness.
There are dumb male (Jerry) and female (Summer) characters, smart male (Rick) and female (Beth) characters.
Stereotypes of teenagers (Morty, the horny loser-ish incel similar to Bud Bundy from MWC or Summer's female friends who are all shallow Gen Z types whose interests don't go beyond social media).
The humor is raunchy and offensive and not afraid to hurt anyone's feelings.
I mean it's an ok show, but definitely no wokeness I see. If anything it's explicitly anti-woke
Created: 05-29-2023
Think for yourself
Humorous nihilism
The wokeness is this dark animation is not so much race-swapping or LBGTQ or feminism -- the usual things -- it's more the ethical nihilism and moral relativism of the show. Since there are infinite numbers of parallel universes postulated, life has no value. Each episode features numerous pointless deaths of characters, even to the point that they're murdered by their doppelganger from a parallel universe. This is a dominant feature of the woke worldview, which has eschewed traditional morality and religion in favour of secular humanism. It's the most nihilistic tv show or movie I can think of. The message seems to be that nothing matters and it's all absurd. It's essentially Albert Camus' vision of life; he once said "Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
Created: 08-30-2023
NoWo
Conflicting, somewhat clever, nihilistic romp.
As stated by another reviewer, this show is not woke as in put-a-chick-in-it-make-her-lame-and-gay, but can best be defined as godless.
In an infinite multiverse, no-one/nothing is quite unique, and no life has fundamental value.
Which is unexpected, considering the very obvious 'inspiration' being Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné.
For the younger crowd, Elric is a tall, lanky albino with a drug problem and access to world-shaking magic, and a tendency to mooch off the life of his lessers, literally. Also, in each universe there is a Champion. In each a Companion (short and pudgy in Elric's case), which the Champion ends up killing usually.
But this in the context of a war between chaos and order, with an overall moral framework.
All in all, the storyline is somewhat clever, somewhat interesting, and somewhat disgusting. Easy, high-school level edgy nihilistic cool, which has always existed. The kind that pushes a young Karl Marchs to put an X in his name because, edgy.
Caveat videor.
Created: 11-06-2023
Aj
Subtly woke
They throw in some jabs at republicans here and there but nothing overtly obnoxious. They also don’t idolize leftists or their agenda. Lesbian scene but they make it more weird than it is sexual.. no trans, nothing about climate change or pronouns or anything super obnoxious. I like the show, it’s weird in a good way IMO
Created: 12-30-2023
