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Wokeness 3/5
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This is a 6 episode anthology series based on short stories posted to a subreddit. Sounds like a terrible idea already. Given there's only
6 episodes I'll do a short review of each one.

Episode #1--4 woke 0 overall -There is no reason for this to exist. There's no story here. It's a half baked idea with no substance, no explanation of anything and no ending. On top of that it clearly had no budget and looks like it was filmed in the backyard of someone's apartment complex. Then there's the blatant racism. DEI good black characters. Black characters are smart and non aggressive. White characters are authoritarian, dumb, violent and aggressive.

Episode #2--2 woke 3 overall--Appears to take place in the late 80's early 90's given the clothes and décor on the inside of the houses but there are modern cars everywhere indicating lazy filmmaking or general lack of budget. If budget is the issue than why not just make it modern. It's a basic slasher type story, nothing new but serviceable. Some decent gore FX as well. Woke consists of DEI casting choices. Lead is a Spanish male with 2 friends consisting of another Spanish male and 1 white male. Guess which one is the aggressive nasty bully.

Episode #3--0 woke 2 overall--A play on gen z social media obsession and fame. It feels like I've seen something very similar before but can't
recall where. The acting is not great and the story is very predictable. It's packed full of unlikable annoying characters and I would hardly call this horror. There's nothing woke but it's average at best.

Episode #4--5 woke-0 overall--A seemingly very conservative religious couple gets pregnant and he asks her if she wants a boy or a girl and she says I don't care as long as 'they're' healthy. A normal person would say as long as it's healthy not they. This is clearly meant to show what appears to be Christians as crazy. The wife when told the baby will not survive birth immediately wants to schedule an abortion. This would never happen so easily for what's supposed to be a very religious person like this. The husband is shown to be an irrational, aggressive, crazy religious nut while the logical wife is the hero who easily questions and rejects her religion. The acting is pretty poor the ending makes no sense and the FX if you want to call them that are laughably bad.

Episode #5--1 woke-1 overall. Some really bad acting in this one and another no budget episode that's half an idea with no ending. Once the 'surprise' at the end is revealed the entire story falls apart and previous scenes make no sense or seem completely impossible. Little girls only friend is Asian. The drugged out mom is violent and aggressive and the boyfriend? is a total beta loser.

Episode #6--0 woke 2 overall--I believe this takes place in the 90's but not sure. The acting is decent but the writing again is not great. The two leads are said to be in middle school that would put them in the 11-13 range but look more like high schoolers. The story is pretty basic but if you have the headphones on the wall for a reason why wouldn't they be standard use when you go to bed and not wait until something happens. Bad lazy writing. At least the creature looks decent.

Final thoughts--Overall I don't really see any reason to watch this. Episode 2 is the best of the lot but even that is barely worth it. There is a definite overall woke aspect to most episodes and they obviously had no real budget. I would skip this entire thing.

Score: 1

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Created: 08-27-2026

Wokeness 3/5
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Overall 2/5
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A Korean post apocalypse series where everything is a desert and highly trained delivery men go out to bring food and oxygen to people.
The Cg is sometimes passable and other times looks terrible but the acting is decent. The writing at the start already has issues though. There is a lack of clean oxygen and has to be delivered to people but everyone is wearing filter type masks that provide no oxygen? They say that the oxygen is full of pollutants and has to purified so then why not just have purifiers installed in living areas if simple basic masks work. Then the oxygen the deliver to people is in very small bottles that would seemingly last only a few hours, but the residents only place orders once they get down to 20 percent. Makes no sense. Action and fight scenes also are not particularly well done. Fights consist of 1 person fighting a group of people who stand around waiting for their turn to fight one at a time. Trained bad guys who can't hit people right in front of them with fully auto weapons while the good refugee manages to take them all out with a handgun. There is the usual badass female character who is physically manhandling and throwing around male characters. The entire theme of the show is generic dystopian cliché. Evil corporation and class system with greedy bad rich people and good noble lower class refugee's. The good president is female and the head of the evil corporation is male. There's only 1 season and the first episode was enough to know I wasn't interested in going any further.

Score: 1

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Created: 08-25-2026

Wokeness 5/5
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Overall 1/5
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Group of 3 couple has all proper DEI boxes checked, Indian female and white male, white and Spanish mixed race gay couple so they get 2 boxes checked with that one and the lone white couple. The gay couple is incredibly annoying and obnoxious. Yet again appears to be a thinly veiled excuse to preach about 'toxic masculinity, rape culture' and feminist consent nonsense. Like everything now this is yet another unoriginal rehash that's been done before and much better. Basically Stepford wives with a side of A.I. The acting is terrible and the writing makes no sense. There is virtually no worldbuilding or attempts to explain anything. Every single person here is a complete idiot and does the dumbest things imaginable.

Score: 3

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Created: 08-24-2026

Wokeness 2/5
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Overall 3/5
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Based on a book that is utter anti American, anti male, woke feminist garbage so I didn't expect much out of this. There is some of the woke holdovers from the book like the lead black smart female that all the white males are after and the uneducated white trash criminal lead male. There is still some writing issues that were present in the book as well and while the woke aspects are toned way down they aren't completely gone like some DEI characters and there is still some feminism present. The acting is ok, the CG is pretty poor but overall it's still a watchable horror/sci-fi/comedy that's miles better than the trash book it's based on but still just a bit above average.

Score: 3

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Created: 08-21-2026

Wokeness 5/5
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Overall 0/5
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Lead white male has a black wife for the mixed race check mark. The sheriff is black. Tons of DEI casting. All the black people are good and all the white people are evil except the white husband. Racist black wife says a small town is off because she only saw 2 black people and they were working the drive thru. She then calls the black sheriff an uncle tom and says he's on someone's payroll. Then a pickup truck with a rebel flag in the back almost runs them of the road. They get home and a bunch of white men break into their house and say they want them out of town. They than wrap a rope around the black wife's neck and look for a tree. This is within the first 10 minutes of this trash. Also of note was a the very beginning the white bad guys are shown attacking a house at night wearing all black with black masks and the leader shows up wearing a bright red hat. Pretty obvious what the on the nose messaging is here. This isn't a movie, it's woke political propaganda of the worst kind. The acting is as bad as it gets, the only story is black people are good and victims of the evil white man especially from a certain political side.

Score: 2

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Created: 08-17-2026

Wokeness 3/5
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Overall 1/5
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5 minutes in and there is a mixed race lesbian marriage proposal. The head of the Spanish intelligence is female, the badass Columbian female
agent who has no problem absorbing punches and beating up much larger men sometimes multiple at once. There are a lot of badass females in general scattered about. A script so generic, cliché and unoriginal it's probably A.I. written. The acting is average but the action scenes if you can call them that are so boring and bland it's not even worth watching for that. The car chase scenes are slow and uneventful. Really nothing
here worth watching in my opinion.

Score: 2

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Created: 08-16-2026

Wokeness 2/5
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Overall 1/5
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This is typical Statham and most of his movie are pretty much the same at this point. If you like them you will probably like this one as well if you can take the lazy nonsensical writing. Right at the start there is a storm that just comes out of nowhere magically. One minute there's nothing and the next there's a bad CG big storm. There is zero chance that small child is going to launch that boat and paddle back out in those waves. Then the much larger trawler instantly capsizes and sinks while Statham's tiny little dingy has absolutely no issues whatsoever. At least the action scenes are good though right? Well the first real action comes at about 40 minutes in and features one of the most inept hit squads ever put to film. Apparently they only employ the deaf and blind, diversity I guess.
The 'action' and fight scenes themselves are slow, dull and just generally boring. Then when one of them goes into the cabin and grabs the child he reports 'I have the girl'. What? She's just some random unrelated girl he saved from drowning that no one knows is there. Her presence should of been a complete surprise yet they appear to be looking for her. The child actor is pretty bad and at this point spends most of her screen time with a vacant deer in the headlights look. This includes one the dumbest movie tropes of a nail gun firing nails across a room like a gun independently of any air hookup. The absolutely ludicrous club scene was where I couldn't take it anymore. Statham fighting, shooting people and stabbing them in the neck with broken glass in the middle of dozens of people in a club and not one person notices or cares. After that garbage I don't care how it ends. All leaders and power positions are held by women including the prime minister and girlboss black female head of MI6. General DEI overrepresentation in casting.
This little girl saves Statham not once but multiple times.

Score: 1

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Created: 08-14-2026

Wokeness 1/5
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Overall 4/5
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I went into this knowing nothing about it or the Stephen King short story it's based on. I thought it was a straight forward cursed object horror movie and wasn't to impressed until well into it I realized it was a horror comedy. Knowing that suddenly makes the whole movie much better. There's nothing scary and all the very over the top gory kills are more funny and cartoonish than anything. The comedy works and it feels like a Final Destination movie with a heavy dose of dark humor. The acting is good notable the lead actor who plays 2 very different roles as twins. One weird thing is the first part is set in 1999 and I thought I saw it wrong and it was 1979. Never does it ever feel like it's in the 90's and when it jumps forward 25 years to 2024 it feels almost the same like
it's still the same time period. It's a bit strange but doesn't overall hurt the movie. The only thing woke is a couple of DEI casting choices and a group of DEI school girls bully the white male boy. It's very short scenes and barely warrants a woke rating, but it's there so it gets a 1.

Score: 2

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Created: 08-13-2026

Wokeness 0/5
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Overall 1/5
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A Finish horror comedy that desperatly wants to be the new Gremlins. The lead teens look like they are well into their 20's. Some truly terrible
acting. The creature FX both practical and CG look bad, the gore fx are ok but nothing special. It wants to be an 80's homage but it just doesn't
work. The humor and constant little 80's gags are more eye rolling than funny. I didn't see anything woke but I only made it to 30 minutes and
couldn't take it anymore.

Score: 1

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Created: 08-09-2026

Wokeness 3/5
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Overall 2/5
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I'm in the minority here but I found this painfully predictible, boring and unoriginal. It just takes the done to death fatal attraction trope
then throws in the monkey's paw to make it supernatural and voilà rehashed Gen Z slop. The acting is ok most of the time but certain scenes that are supposed to be creepy or scary are so overacted they are just comical. The male lead is so annoyingly beta and pathetic it's hard to watch. You know exactly what's going to happen right from the start and how it will end, there is not one original thing in this. As for woke this is clearly meant to be a message on 'toxic masculinity', female victimhood and consent. The male is meant to be the villain portrayed as the emotional weakling who has no problem taking advantage of the female when given the opportunity. Nobody in this is likable in any way least of all the male lead.

Score: 1

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Created: 08-07-2026

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