When the Dust Settles (2020) | How Woke Is It?

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When the Dust Settles2020

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What We Think

When the Dust Settles leans heavily into current ideological trends, favoring representation and progressive themes over balanced storytelling. The result is a polished, but unmistakably woke, piece of prestige television.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The show appears to focus heavily on intersecting identities, weaving in a range of characters from various backgrounds where identity often outweighs organic character development. In our view, themes like race, immigration, and sexuality are foregrounded, with certain storylines feeling driven more by ideology than natural plot progression.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Traditional elements like family, religion, and classic gender roles are largely either backgrounded or depicted as sources of conflict and trauma. Masculinity often gets the short end of the stick, with more traditional men portrayed as stubborn or flawed, while female and minority characters tend to get a more idealized treatment.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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The show tends to present traditional or dissenting viewpoints through either problematic or narrow characterizations, while promoting a largely uniform modern worldview. There’s little space for pluralism; with alternative perspectives often caricatured or ignored.

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