Hélène et les Garçons (1992) | How Woke Is It?

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Hélène et les Garçons1992

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What We Think

Hélène et les Garçons is about as unwoke as TV gets. It’s deeply conventional, a little cheesy, and barely registers on any modern wokeness radar. If anything, it’s proof of how different the early ‘90s were.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The show sticks pretty closely to classic teen romance and friendship plots, without shoehorning in modern ideological themes or prioritizing identity politics over character dynamics. Characters are defined by their personalities and relationships, not activism or tokenism. It’s simple, sometimes painfully so, but it doesn’t compromise its narrative for ideology.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

Traditional romance, friendship, and youthful drama are at the heart of this show. Masculinity, femininity, and family themes reflect standard '90s sensibilities; nothing is deconstructed, mocked, or revised to fit progressive trends. If anything, it’s a time capsule of basic cultural norms.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

Alternative worldviews are pretty much absent, but so is any push for ideological conformity beyond 'be nice to friends and maybe flirt.' The show’s moral universe is blandly non-woke, and its biggest controversy is who’s dating whom. Stereotypes abound, but not in a modern ideological sense.

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