The Long Shadow (2023) | How Woke Is It?

Our VerdictNot Woke

20%

The Long Shadow2023

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What We Think

The Long Shadow is refreshingly restrained by current TV standards. While it updates its perspective on gender issues, it respects narrative integrity and avoids heavy-handed modern revisionism, landing it squarely on the low end of the woke spectrum.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

Not Woke

What is this?

The Long Shadow tells the Yorkshire Ripper story with a strong emphasis on historically accurate detail. Characters are based on real people, and while there is attention to victims’ backgrounds, it doesn’t appear forced or agenda-driven. Identity factors serve to illustrate the time and place rather than overshadow personality or story.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Mildly Woke

What is this?

The series portrays policing, family, and working-class communities of 1970s and '80s Britain largely without sneering or heavy revisionism. While modern sensitivity is present in how the victims’ experiences are portrayed, it doesn’t overtly undermine traditional cultural foundations.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Mildly Woke

What is this?

While The Long Shadow clearly leans into modern perspectives on gender and victimhood, it does try to situate these within the societal context of the time. There is some critique of period attitudes, but it avoids full caricature or monoculture and provides nuanced views on institutional failures.

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