Are there Any Woke Properties that you Unironically Enjoy?

[Sealbaby]

Rocky Horror Picture Show before actual trannies became horrifying abominations.

I wouldn't consider RHPS 'woke' because its depiction of sexual my norrities is tongue in cheek and absurd rather than po-faced and moralising.

I honestly don't think I enjoy ANY woke pictures, which is surprising, because I'm pretty left wing and woker than at least 90% of this website's userbase. I found Triumph of the Will substantially more engaging than Black Panther.

Which goes of course to show what an absolute fucking fail mainstream media and Hollywood's attempts to appeal to left-wing people are.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

I actually really like the HBO Watchmen show. There's some really cringe dialogue here and there but it's pretty sparse imo. Ozymandias is also an absolute treat in the show. Black Manhattan is explained to the point where I don't mind it that much. It warrants nothing other than an eye-roll but at least they make it work for me in universe. They also did the sheriff dirty by actually making him a raging racist instead of leaving him ambiguous/an-actual-good-guy-that-has-differing-opinions-but-puts-them-aside-because-he's-reasonable and that, in my opinion, is the biggest sin it commits.

Lube man also steals the show for being genuinely hilarious

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

The Paladins development team are full of horny-as-fuck wokeoids, but it's still a good game and a better alternative to Overwatch

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

Orange is the New Black was a pretty enjoyable comic soap opera for a couple of season before it went completely off the rails.

Night in the Woods is a masterpiece. I'm not sure I would describe it as "woke" though it certainly has attracted that kind of following (and unfortunately a lot of furries). It's anti-capitalist but it sells the idea without relying on strawmen or other nonsense, and it has interesting characters who just happen to be gay/bi/trans without it being the defining aspect of their personality.

 

[starborn427614]

Orange is the New Black was a pretty enjoyable comic soap opera for a couple of season before it went completely off the rails.

Night in the Woods is a masterpiece. I'm not sure I would describe it as "woke" though it certainly has attracted that kind of following (and unfortunately a lot of furries). It's anti-capitalist but it sells the idea without relying on strawmen or other nonsense, and it has interesting characters who just happen to be gay/bi/trans without it being the defining aspect of their personality.

NITW is many things, but I'd never consider it woke. Quirky, possibly a tad hipsterish but more focused on characters than causes.

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

NITW is many things, but I'd never consider it woke. Quirky, possibly a tad hipsterish but more focused on characters than causes.

You're probably right and my perception probably has to do with the fandom. I was big into Bernie and other lefty causes when the game came out, and lots of people in that sphere were squeeing like NIGHT IN THE WOODS IS SOCIALIST WITH A QUEER FEMALE PROTAGONIST OMG.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Hell no.

 

[umami's milk]

Orange is the New Black was a pretty enjoyable comic soap opera for a couple of season before it went completely off the rails.

Season 3 was the last enjoyable season of OITNB before they went off the deep end with the crazy edgelord plots and before they tried to cram every current political issue into the new seasons.

 

[scallion]

I like fag videogames NITW, Omori, Undertale/Deltarune, Life is Strange, so on and so forth...

 

[RainwaterDrop]

I like fag videogames NITW, Omori, Undertale/Deltarune, Life is Strange, so on and so forth...

I haven't played Omori yet, but I like the artstyle and it's on my list once I get less fucked with my duties this month. Looks quite interesting!

On the topic, I bought Far Cry 6 a while ago and I liked it. The game itself is political, it's very good on some aspects such as the map scale and how Yara feels like an actual country, with cities and such and not some small province in the middle of nowhere. Out of the factions, the wokest one with the black girl and the trans guy is the worst. Weakest story, most of the characters are unlikeable not due to excessive pandering but rather with how fucking annoying they are, they play them as being tough guys but they're fucking useless for most of their story to the point the player character and Clara (the leader of the revolutionaries) comment on it: At one point, you're hosting a concert from them on the Minister of Culture's Mansion, and you're basically left to fight entire waves of bad guys alone while they do fuckall to help, they don't even bring backup!

The game has some weak points and great points, it varies wildly in some aspects. A specifically great one is the player character, Dani, it feels like you're actually playing as a guy or a girl with an actual personality and life story, even if Girl Dani's design and performance are much better compared to the guy's bland looks, the result is great!

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

I like Bill Burr

https://twitter.com/NetflixIsAJoke/status/1546509674031235072

 

[LikeRivenIRL]

You're definitely right re: all of the Clinton dicksucking, mea culpa.

I didn't really mind the letter to Clinton because there really is a large contingent of people in Ireland on both sides of the border who worship the Clintons re: Good Friday Agreement. Including her actual person in it was gross though imo.

 

[WebLurker]

I actually really enjoyed the first season of Altered Carbon. I tried watching the second but I actually got too bored with how much more powerful the main character had become and lost interest.

 

[potato fan]

I sorta liked Steven Universe, for aesthethics (at least the episodes that were not drawn by interns) and weirdness of first episodes. I hated it for shit arch story adn character development more than for being gay tho.

I enjoy watching movies/series with Kristen Bell, but she seems like a huge sjw, and it seems her politics are leaking into whatever she stars in, she just can't not shit on white straight men.

I liked Enola Holmes despite the le strong black ninja female/white men are privileged while others suffer bits they put in there

 

[soy_king]

I sorta liked Steven Universe, for aesthethics (at least the episodes that were not drawn by interns) and weirdness of first episodes. I hated it for shit arch story adn character development more than for being gay tho.

Back when I was woke adjacent I kinda liked Steven Universe, and the first two seasons weren't nearly as obnoxiously woke. I haven't watched it since, though I suspect I'd probably hate it.

I enjoy watching movies/series with Kristen Bell, but she seems like a huge sjw, and it seems her politics are leaking into whatever she stars in, she just can't not shit on white straight men.

Pretty ironic, considering how she's married to Dax Shepard, the prototypical straight white guy.

 

[starborn427614]

Back when I was woke adjacent I kinda liked Steven Universe, and the first two seasons weren't nearly as obnoxiously woke. I haven't watched it since, though I suspect I'd probably hate it.

The later seasons aren't as well made IMO (at least from a technical standpoint) but there's still plenty of episodes I enjoyed. The movie is definitely the high point of the Post S2 stuff. If you feel like watching anything, watch that. It summarises the entire original story in the first few minutes anyway.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

NBC's Hannibal is probably one of my favorite shows even though the writer is a borderline unhinged leftist who wanted to make the fourth season have a veganism theme. It's not as woke as it could have been, if made today it would have been way worse. I was fine with the obsession/infatuation/love-hate relationship between Will and Hannibal since it was an interesting take on a twisted mentor/confidant relationship but once it cranked up the queerbait in S3 it started becoming hard to stomach. It was so very clearly done to cater to the Tumblr crows. You also had Alana start banging a woman out of the blue (ironically done in a pretty "problematic" way plotwise since she doesn't go gay until she's traumatized by a man).

 

[Ben10]

Netflix is horrid, but I have been enjoying Locke and Key. As much as they cram into interracial couples and a troon villain the core of the show feels like a regular old coming of age story about some siblings and a magic house navigating stuff like growing older, losing friends, blah blah blah.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

There are still some decent Law & Order SVU episodes occasionally.

Fun fact about Law & Order - none of the bad guys are ever black. In any episode, ever. Always white, mostly men, for it's entire 20+ year run.

That's next level wokeness there, ahead of its time.

 

[OrionBalls]

I liked Ms. Marvel.