Summer Heights High (2007) | How Woke Is It?

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12%

Summer Heights High2007

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What We Think

Summer Heights High is an equal-opportunity satire with little allegiance to modern 'woke' orthodoxy. Its targets are broad, its humor unapologetic, and it avoids the identity-driven storytelling that’s so rampant today.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Summer Heights High focuses on character-driven satire and doesn't feel the need to shoehorn in modern identity politics. Characters are absurd and flawed in equal measure, without preachy messages or tokenism dominating the narrative. Any social commentary deals more with human behavior than with checking boxes for representation.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The show ribs cultural institutions, but it does so across the board, satirizing education, authority, and youth culture without fixating on traditional morality or family values as primary targets. Masculinity, femininity, and social norms are played for laughs rather than re-education.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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There’s no allegiance to one ideology: everybody gets roasted, from teachers to students to parents. Alternative views appear frequently, largely because the main characters represent wildly different, and equally lampooned, viewpoints. The show leans much more toward irreverence than dogma.

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