The Gilded Age (2022) | How Woke Is It?

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82%

The Gilded Age2022

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For all its lush costumes, 'The Gilded Age' can't resist coloring its history with present-day ideological brushstrokes. While entertaining, it layers on diversity and progressive themes in ways that feel more like a lecture than a period drama.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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The show inserts modern diversity concerns into a historical setting, giving significant focus to race and class issues in ways that feel tailored to 2020s sensibilities. While some characters are well-drawn, there's an occasional sense that identity factors are foregrounded over organic narrative development, slightly undermining immersion.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The series often depicts traditional values, such as old-family norms, gender roles, and religious life, with a critical or even condescending eye. Rather than presenting these foundations as nuanced, it tends to privilege characters challenging convention, projecting today's values back onto the Gilded Age.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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While some complexity exists, alternative perspectives, especially those aligned with tradition, are largely represented as narrow-minded or antagonistic. Dissenters from modern moral views are rarely given depth, which leans toward a one-sided ideological presentation.

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