The North Water (2021) | How Woke Is It?

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The North Water2021

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What We Think

The North Water is refreshingly non-woke by today’s standards. It offers a bleak, masculine, and historically grounded story without obvious ideological posturing or forced modern narratives. A rare Arctic breeze through the usual Hollywood smog.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The North Water is gritty and leans heavily on character flaws, realism, and harsh survival, rather than checking modern identity boxes. Its casting and narrative choices appear rooted in authenticity rather than ideology.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

This series is unapologetically masculine, steeped in brutality, and doesn't toss in much in the way of modern values or undermine traditional gender roles and religion. It mostly lets 19th-century attitudes and hardships speak for themselves.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

There's very little virtue-signaling or caricaturing of traditional perspectives. All characters are deeply flawed, but not as simple ideological cutouts, more products of their era's harsh realities than modern dogma.

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