Smiling Friends (2020) | How Woke Is It?

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Smiling Friends2020

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What We Think

Smiling Friends is refreshingly non-woke, focusing on comedy over identity politics. It lampoons modern society rather than lecturing it, keeping its distance from the usual Hollywood preachiness.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Smiling Friends focuses on humor, absurdity, and quirky characters. The show’s casting and storylines aren’t preoccupied with identity, and characters are memorable based on personality rather than box-checking for diversity.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

While the show pokes fun at a lot of things, it avoids heavy-handed shots at tradition, religion, or masculinity. It lampoons everyone and everything equally, rather than shoving one-sided messages down viewers' throats.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

There’s no dominant woke worldview here. Satire and absurdity rule, and the show parodies modern culture rather than pushing any overt ideology. Alternatives aren’t villainized , almost everything is treated with equal irreverence.

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