The Listener (2009) | How Woke Is It?

Our VerdictNot Woke

10%

The Listener2009

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What We Think

The Listener is as non-woke as it gets by modern standards. The show is focused on good old-fashioned storytelling, with representation serving the plot rather than overshadowing it. Any “woke” elements are negligible at best.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The Listener centers on a telepathic male paramedic solving crimes. The focus remains on personal development, skill, and classic procedural storytelling over identity politics. Diverse casting is present, but never distracts from or overrides the story’s narrative integrity or character realism.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

Family, morality, and traditional virtues are treated neutrally or favorably. Masculinity and femininity are portrayed in a mostly conventional manner, without forced subversion or cultural revisionism. There's little effort to undermine foundational values, this is standard network fare from the late 2000s.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

The show doesn’t explicitly villainize traditional viewpoints or make caricatures out of dissenters. Pluralism is present within the police and medical teams; ideological topics are mostly avoided, sticking to tried-and-true genres.

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