I'd say The Mentalist is worth watching. The main character is a white man and is actually portrayed as being intelligent and capable and not made to be a buffoon by the women in the show, which is refreshing. Of the five main characters, four of them are law enforcement and two of those are women, which I'm sure is fairly unrealistic, but at least they aren't portrayed as being consistently superior to the men. I'd rate the wokeness as low, outside that specific demographic issue. The average episode is good and the long-term plot and mystery of the show is resolved pretty competently.
I don't remember Battlestar Galactica as being particularly woke, but it's been a long time since I saw it, and at the very least it has the same sorts of demographic issues where about half the military personnel are women as if that's somehow remotely realistic. Starbuck in particular was a man in the original show (which I have not watched) and got changed to a woman in the remake. The average episode is okay I guess, and some of them are actually quite good, though the quality is definitely inconsistent and there are times when they ran out of money for the season or something and have lengthy segments dealing with someone's marital problems or some trivial stuff I don't care about. It's also a show which is very focused on some particular mysterious stuff, and most of that stuff is not resolved in a satisfying way whatsoever. The writers clearly had a bunch of inexplicable stuff happen to keep viewer interest without having a plan on how to resolve it, then at the end they kind of threw up their hands and gave up.
If you want totally unwoke stuff, try going back further. Off the top of my head, The Prisoner (1967) is well regarded, extremely unique and somewhat surreal; Danger Man is worth trying, and I liked The Sandbaggers. Apparently I like old spy stuff.
The Prisoner I've always heard was super progressive for it's time
Maybe so, but not in a "Men are dumb, whites are evil" sort of way, but more by questioning whether our government in general and intelligence agencies in particular really have our best interests at heart, and suggesting that the intelligence agencies of the west are at least potentially as amoral as the KGB. I don't think either of those points are really left wing values any more.
I'd say The Mentalist is worth watching. The main character is a white man and is actually portrayed as being intelligent and capable and not made to be a buffoon by the women in the show, which is refreshing. Of the five main characters, four of them are law enforcement and two of those are women, which I'm sure is fairly unrealistic, but at least they aren't portrayed as being consistently superior to the men. I'd rate the wokeness as low, outside that specific demographic issue. The average episode is good and the long-term plot and mystery of the show is resolved pretty competently.
I don't remember Battlestar Galactica as being particularly woke, but it's been a long time since I saw it, and at the very least it has the same sorts of demographic issues where about half the military personnel are women as if that's somehow remotely realistic. Starbuck in particular was a man in the original show (which I have not watched) and got changed to a woman in the remake. The average episode is okay I guess, and some of them are actually quite good, though the quality is definitely inconsistent and there are times when they ran out of money for the season or something and have lengthy segments dealing with someone's marital problems or some trivial stuff I don't care about. It's also a show which is very focused on some particular mysterious stuff, and most of that stuff is not resolved in a satisfying way whatsoever. The writers clearly had a bunch of inexplicable stuff happen to keep viewer interest without having a plan on how to resolve it, then at the end they kind of threw up their hands and gave up.
If you want totally unwoke stuff, try going back further. Off the top of my head, The Prisoner (1967) is well regarded, extremely unique and somewhat surreal; Danger Man is worth trying, and I liked The Sandbaggers. Apparently I like old spy stuff.
Maybe so, but not in a "Men are dumb, whites are evil" sort of way, but more by questioning whether our government in general and intelligence agencies in particular really have our best interests at heart, and suggesting that the intelligence agencies of the west are at least potentially as amoral as the KGB. I don't think either of those points are really left wing values any more.
That window shift in action.