I'm even fine with woke stories if they are well acted and written. One of my top 3 series is Black Sails which has ends up having a full on progressive fantasy plotline. But the production value is off the charts, the characters are interesting including the "diverse" characters which have flaws and aren't tokens, and the actors pour their heart into it.
Black Sails is pretty great. I lost momentum in the last season, because it veered into the GoT model of "Everything that happens to anyone anywhere is super bad and awful and depressing."
The keelhauling was graphic enough that I lost the will to watch much more past that.
I'm even fine with woke stories if they are well acted and written. One of my top 3 series is Black Sails which has ends up having a full on progressive fantasy plotline. But the production value is off the charts, the characters are interesting including the "diverse" characters which have flaws and aren't tokens, and the actors pour their heart into it.
If the diverse characters have flaws, then you don't have woke media on your hands, you just have normal stories.
Black Sails is pretty great. I lost momentum in the last season, because it veered into the GoT model of "Everything that happens to anyone anywhere is super bad and awful and depressing."
The keelhauling was graphic enough that I lost the will to watch much more past that.