Big Eva's Reviews
People think it’s woke because it’s not white
It is NOT woke. The diversity of the group reflects how random the average DnD party is. Of course the barbarian is a female Mexican. Because your Mexican buddy made his character a female. Of course the leader of the group is a handsome bard with no combat skills. That’s how you play the game. He maxed out his charisma and intelligence but not his strength etc. He’s a bard. The black wizard isn’t automatically good at everything like it would be if it were woke. The “super good guy” good at everything black guy paladin is played for laughs.
This is a great adventure romp that doesn’t take itself too seriously and is fun for the whole family. The bad guy is a con artist politician that gives the people bread and circuses. It’s basically a libertarian folk tale.
Created: 07-25-2025
Low Quality Writing
Low quality writing. Super contrived. A few mildly woke moments, but it seems the conservative dialogue is all contrived to get a particular audience.
Created: 07-25-2025
Terrible story/uncool hero
The story and villain is subpar. As the other reviewer noted, instead of a bombshell southern bell, Raylan shacks up with a frumpy inner city black woman. The original series had plenty of strong black and female characters, and they never had to make Raylan a dopey loser to do it.
Created: 07-25-2025
Every woke trope
Aside from my below review on wokeness, the quality of writing is generally low compared to Bosch. Instead of throwing you into the story and slowly introducing characters over the course of several seasons like Bosch did, you get a clunky exposition scene of Ballard introducing her team all at once. Fiction writing should show and not tell. The writing is contrived and more in line with what you expect from network TV prime time slog. This show is so focused on the woke message they forgot how to write a good script. The men are all dumb. They are either perpetrators, or guilty by association or gay. Both Bosch series establish that there are many good honorable cops in the LAPD. In this show that is erased. A grandparent figure basically says all the cops are capable of Rodney King level racism, and that’s why the force needs black cops.
The only good male character is gay, everyone other man is generally a pig unless he’s a minority. There’s a clear double standard as well. A grandma oogles a naked man, and it’s played for laughs. In the same episode a book where guys rate sexual encounters is seen as abusive and wrong. One of the women in the book literally murdered a guy and the detectives feel remorse for her instead of the murder victim.
Created: 07-25-2025
