A woke series made to provoke. Why?

Everyone knows it’s woke, they don’t even try to hide it. In fact, when the showrunner was asked “...what are you excited to share the fans?”, she literally said: “I am excited for the fans to dissect absolutely everything that they hate.”

So here we have a new step in the evolution of woke culture. Nothing that should really surprise anyone, considering everything that’s been going on lately.

The point is that this show is deliberately and maliciously made to destroy an already existing universe that used to be narratively solid (and, to be fair, it’s been getting wrecked for several series now). This isn’t just woke or even super woke → this is direct, in-your-face provocation. It’s the evolution of a movement that refuses to die.

The real question is:
Why are they doing this?

And the answer is simple, though not very transparent. They want to distract. They want to signal that they still exist. They’re dying, and just like the desperate shouting they do at street protests to get attention, they’re now doing the same thing with every series they put out.

The good news is that the numbers are not on their side. it’s been reported all over the world that a toy sitting on a chair (a Spock action figure), put there by the YouTuber Nerdrotic, got more views and more success than one of their episodes
[ you can see a news report about it here → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkqTF0wz1Ag ].
And sooner or later, this is going to have to be investigated as money laundering.

An interesting movie about Japanese culture and a critique of actors.

Straight to the point: is it woke? No.

Does it have woke elements? Yes. That’s why I add a point for how much of that it has.

That said, the movie stands out mainly because of its subject matter. The woke content it includes is lightly woven into the story to help it move forward and build the narrative, not to shove a political message down your throat, even though the core theme is rooted in a socio-political critique of Japan.

Even so, it’s handled with respect.

Other films have already tackled the idea of “rent-a-family” from a Western perspective, like Lost in Translation, but not like this—and honestly, this one is much better. On top of that, the lead isn’t a smug actor just playing himself, like Bill Murray. I mention that movie because it touches on depression too, which is also explored here, but in a much more positive way and from a more authentic viewpoint, since the director is Japanese. You can feel the love for her country, coming across as constructive criticism rather than the destructive kind we’re used to in the West.

A solid drama. Not perfect, but watchable.

A straight-up classic comedy

Nothing woke here. Just a great comedy with class-based humor in the Naked Gun style, aiming for nothing more, and nothing less, than to give you a good time and make you laugh.

Highly recommended!

Enjoy it!

Garbage-tier slop

This series is awful, and I’m not even going to get into the details of why, because not even the angry actor’s PR shields can defend how bad it is.

That said, if you’re in the mood to watch a cheap, low-effort show starring a smug actor who thinks he can insult half the country and then play president in a TV production, go ahead and watch it.

Otherwise, I suggest you watch something more interesting.

Nonstop crybaby meltdown

Sorry guys, but this show stopped being the whole “I make fun of absolutely everyone and I’m not on either side” thing and instead took the mask off and showed how left-wing they really are. And that’s been the case ever since Trump took office again. Clearly DOGE cut off some funding stream that was being funneled to them or their buddies and hit a nerve, so now all they do is whine about it.

They had some solid moments back when they weren’t taking sides and managed to create a few iconic episodes in pop culture, but the last season has become repetitive and extremely left-wing. To the point where some lines literally go, “well, woke wasn’t that bad,” and they even devoted an entire episode to Cartman being depressed because “woke” was dead, constantly pandering to what’s left of their audience: a bunch of whiny little leftists desperate for attention

You still think this is gonna save the Marvel universe?

Eleven months before it’s out, they’ve already dropped four teasers showing who’s involved, and even if they brought back the entire original cast (including those who’ve had legal disputes with Marvel/Disney, like Scarlett Johansson or Terrence Howard), they couldn’t fix it.
This has been rotten from the start, and the actors involved are just that → actors. They’re not saviors, and they don’t care if the story is told right.
There aren’t many Henry Cavills in history; only he could stand up to the system because he has the backing and clout to do it, and even then, he couldn’t stop the direction they were forcing those projects into. Don’t expect this movie to change anything. The same people who ruined it are still behind it, and swapping faces on the snake won’t change that. This franchise is dead, no matter how much noise they make. That’s all they want from you → pure copium.

In the end, it’ll be just that: all bark and no bite.

We’ll see how “awake” this movie really ends up being. For now, let’s leave it at zero and see how it turns out…

Oh, NO! Hell no!! This is NOT Pretty Woman!

According to the press, Anora is supposed to subvert the urban fairy tale of Pretty Woman, but it ends up being a movie that tries to legitimize the shitty behavior of white-trash people. It’s directionless, long, and empty. Beneath a failed comedy and an erratic tone, it offers a frivolous, whitewashed portrayal of prostitution, with a completely wrong take on what it actually is, despite the press trying to sell it as a “male gaze” critique, when it’s not. It’s just Sean Baker’s gaze, and the gaze of the people who paid to make this movie known.

The protagonist is a flat, objectified character with no real motivations, and the supposed class or social conflict never gets developed. The humor is simply bad, the runtime is excessive, and potentially dramatic situations turn into pointless slapstick. The film comes off as offensive (especially to women), shallow, and lacking any real substance, recognized more for marketing and propaganda than for what should actually matter—and which it doesn’t have: narrative merit.

Conclusion: Another movie inflated by the mainstream press, desperately trying to ride the success of a much better film made without all the DEI bullshit and the whole woke movement, just to have a shot at relevance → and still failing to even stand as a movie on its own.

A Political Pamphlet Disguised as a Show

The one who thinks watching this show is somehow cool and can’t see what’s rotten right in plain sight → it’s a total no-brainer: this show is SUPER WOKE! Yeah, it screams diversity, equality, and inclusion everywhere like some kind of plague. It’s splattered all over, from the show’s poster and art style to the very first words spoken on screen. It’s all planned, plotted, and manufactured so idiots will think this is peak art when it’s not. It’s straight-up communist propaganda, ready to be jammed into the heads of people who think they’re edgy and on the side of revolution, veganism, and all that socialist crap.
The premise is interesting, but the execution is completely and deliberately designed to make you believe what’s being done is pure gold - it’s not. It’s just political messaging after political messaging for stupid snobs.

That’s it.

Totally skippable.

If you finish it, you're a masochist

The truth is, when I saw there was a War of the Worlds movie with Ice Cube in it, it definitely caught my attention (how innocent of me 🤦‍♂️), and it made me think that, despite all the shitty popcorn movies we’ve been getting, maybe some halfway decent popcorn flicks were still being made here and there. But when I started watching it, I was blown away by the terrible quality of what I was seeing. I didn’t even make it past the 30-minute mark. Either someone laundered money with that movie, or they made it right in the middle of the pandemic from home and everyone had their internet cut off. Because besides being insanely bad, it’s also woke. Yes, woke. But that’s not even the worst part. The worst part of all is that Amazon has the balls to promote it on their platform.

Do yourself a favor and watch something else. It’s not worth it.

Oh shit! I watched the movie without even checking here first to see if someone had already commented on it.

Since I actually watched it all the way through, I can say this without hesitation: yeah, it has some comedic touches, but it’s working inside a subgenre that’s already hard as hell to make funny - acid comedy. The previous comment pretty much nails everything it points out, but I’m gonna add a bit more.

Both Tim Robinson’s character (the lead) and Paul Rudd’s are well acted overall, but the one that really stands out is Tim Robinson, because he’s actually doing the job he was paid to do. Paul Rudd, on the other hand, is also a producer, and as a producer you’re playing a different role in the project.

What does that mean? It means HE READ THE ENTIRE SCRIPT AND SAW WITH HIS OWN EYES HOW IT ALL ENDED UP COMING TOGETHER IN THE FINAL CUT.

So when you ask yourself, “Why the hell does this even exist if it’s this cringe?” it’s for the same reason the woke movement exists: creator ego and caprice. They either think what they’re making is some kind of raw gem, or they just don’t care because they wrote it high or wired, hanging out, laughing their asses off - and it’s only funny to them.

P.S.: If I could give it less than 20%, I would.