Stephan McClure's Reviews
Extremely Woke
The Flash, surpassing my love for Arrow, started out as a great show with a great super-hero story and excellent cinematic quality CGI. Slowly, season after season, The CW and all shows aligned with the CW become blatant political statements about religion and identity. The shows lost all credibility to the stories they told as pushing a message was far more important than entertainment.
The Flash along with every other current CW television show is Woke beyond the charts of the definition. Truly sad too.
Created: 09-14-2022
Not Woke
Great story full of nostalgia and an outgoing cast. Clean fun and grand story-telling. Does not contain any forced ideological pandering or indoctrination.
Created: 09-14-2022
Not Woke
Great story, great acting and filled with high quality martial arts. This is a great origin story! Does not contain forced ideological pandering or indoctrination.
Created: 09-14-2022
Woke Free
SS:JL was an absolute dream to those who wanted it and a pleasant surprise for those who didn't know they wanted it. The movie was quite long, spanning just over four hours, but it was worth every moment. If you have a rainy Sunday with nothing to do, this is a Great movie to check out. There is no ideological pandering or indoctrination present in this movie.
Created: 09-11-2022
Woke Free
Matrix Resurrections was a great movie follow-up to the three Matrix movies. It essentially 'resets' Neo back to a time before he realized he was "The One". Overall, the story well well-written and the acting was superb. This movie did not contain any elements of Ideological Pandering or Indoctrination.
Created: 09-11-2022
Not Woke
Mortal Kombat 2020 was not a woke film by definition. The story and plot did suffer as the vision was not directed toward the game and the acting could have been a little less over-the-top. It's worth a watch on your phone if you're someone you'd rather not be with time to kill. This movie contains no forced ideological pandering nor any indoctrination.
Created: 09-11-2022
Woke
Could not make it past the first twenty minutes of the movie. Sandra Bullock's actor made a statement of some such as "I identify as a semitruck and that means I love smart people" or something. Completely asinine stereotypical desire to put people further into boxed molds. Contains ideological pandering but does not force indoctrination. (For the first twenty minutes)
Created: 09-11-2022
Not Woke
Cobra Kai is the embodiment of good story-telling and even pokes a bit of fun at the 'woke' television that is being force-fed to the world in droves. The acting is phenomenal, the directing is spot on and the story-telling is rich with actual diversity, challenges and delivers you with a story that showcases people overcoming those challenges as a person and as a team.
Great show, I hope to see many, many more seasons!
This television show does not have any forced ideological pandering nor any indoctrination.
Created: 09-08-2022
Not Woke
Halo is the live-action adaptation of the game that I enjoyed. A lot of people were unhappy with the show itself but most likely failed to read any of the books that were published before Halo 2 / after Halo 1 during it's PC only release.
The story, the acting, the CGI, the back-story, the flow of the story and the execution of the direction... The everything was absolutely spot on. They did have to make alterations to the story to make it more suitable for television rather than an interactive experience but I feel that nailed it spot on. Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed every episode, significantly and substantially.
This television show contains zero forced ideological pandering or indoctrination. This is story-telling at it's finest.
Created: 09-08-2022
Woke'ish
Game of Thrones: All seasons. Game of Thrones is a story in a mythical land that challenges your what 'you' find to be normal. From incest to same-sex to hetero-sexual interactions, the show is an adult themed fantasy that has a great seven seasons of fantastic story-telling. Season 8 suffered significantly in terms of story-telling and it was obvious that they were trying to 'wrap' up the show quickly to move on to other things. The ending of Game of Thrones left many people unhappy and for good reason. I would not recommend this show simply because of the sloppy story-telling at the conclusion of the series.
As for "woke" content; There are same-sex interactions as well as incest among other things but in the sense of the word "woke", there is no forceful ideological pandering occurring nor is there any blatant attempt at indoctrination.
Created: 09-08-2022
