Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020) | How Woke Is It?

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Penny Dreadful: City of Angels2020

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Penny Dreadful: City of Angels delivers a heavy dose of Hollywood's favorite modern messaging. Identity, ideology, and revisionist takes on classic themes are prioritized over timeless storytelling, leaving non-woke viewers out in the cold.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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Penny Dreadful: City of Angels often appears to focus on identity-based conflicts and ideological messaging over organic storytelling. Forced representation takes center stage, and several central characters feel more designed to check boxes than to serve the narrative. This can undercut depth and tension in the plot.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The show repeatedly casts traditional religion, family, and masculinity in a negative light, highlighting corruption, repression, and violence. At the same time, it elevates more modern, subversive values, seeming to relish in challenging cultural foundations whenever possible.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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Any hint of perspective outside modern progressive ideology is either marginalized or outright villainized. Sincere exploration of contrary viewpoints is virtually nonexistent, with 'dissenters' depicted as narrow-minded or malicious.

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