The 2020 revival of Spitting Image puts heavy emphasis on current identity politics, with caricatures often focused on characters’ gender, race, or sexuality. While satire has always been its style, here it sometimes seems the jokes depend more on surface-level representation than clever writing or character nuance, occasionally sacrificing narrative sharpness for ideological points.

Family, traditional figures, and institutions (like religion and the monarchy) are regularly mocked or slanted, with masculinity often played for laughs and female or minority figures receiving more flattering portrayals. The show seems intent on flipping classic values and mocking the old guard, sometimes bordering on revisionist territory.

In our view, traditional or dissenting perspectives are mostly lampooned as backward or villainous, especially from mainstream or center-right viewpoints. Progressive stances are rarely questioned, and the targets of satire tend to reinforce a particular ideological outlook, with little genuine pluralism or sincere counterpoint.