For me it was woke AF but the ratings at woke.ratedby.app seem to be quite low, am I the only one?
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I calibrate my wokeness meter to "would this have made me roll my eyes if I saw it in 1996" and if not then I'm good.
Reacher passed that test.
did it? I can't believe how many "strong women" moments I cringed or rolled my eyes on, or how everyone was racist with the black guy over and over again in ways that would have shocked people in the 60s
I mean, in the 1960s we let blacks have their own neighborhoods, police themselves, their own businesses, their own services like libraries and other stuff.
In a very real and objective way, white people in 2020 America have fewer rights than blacks did. Zero freedom of association, zero presumption of innocence if anyone accuses you of saying gamer words.
The female lead is genuinely a great actress despite being an annoying progressive.
I think the show was pretty explicit that most people didn't like him because he was a stuck-up yankee. There was the one cop who was racist, and possibly the main villain (though I think that was more him trying to get under the detective's skin).