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Last week, I recommended "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," and JarJarJedi replied "Second this, and despite them addressing a lot of topics that would be classified as "social justice" and "woke", it does not give off the impression of being a woke product. I have very low tolerance for "agenda" productions, and I quite enjoyed it..." What other shows "thread the needle" well?
The legal procedural/political dramedy "The Good Wife" was interesting: It was set in Chicago and the (almost exclusively liberal) characters were always openly cynical about local "Machine Politics," and neither side was portrayed as having the moral high ground. Early episodes included "cross-racial identification" problems by witnesses in a criminal trial, a judge being suspected of racial bias and statistical challenges to the evidence (the big reveal was that it was a "kids for cash" scheme), and multiple instances of lawyers saying they stereotype jurors because it works. Later episodes had the liberal main characters battling progressive ideological excess, like a college that interpreted "diversity of expression" as "privileging expression by 'diverse' students," and the odd principled alliance with a red-tribe cause, like a defense of a Project Veritas stand-in against prior restraint. In examples of the main characters being openly ideological, the show was scrupulous about giving the opposition "their day in court." (Not every episode, but if it was a recurring topic.)
(I've never seen it, but I've read the sequel series does all the wrong things.)
Arcane is very clearly about class struggle and has a lot of woke casting and other type things, but it is also simply good, and is able to do the class struggle through enough of a historical lens that it doesn't run into modern woke issues.
The Pitt recently finished its first season and is an excellent medical drama. Some of the doctors get mega preachy and at times their is some serious "very special episode" energy but it's overall very good and anyone who has worked in those settings know that's how a lot of people talk.
I'm on the third episode of The Pitt right now and it was pretty jarring whenthe Indian doctor chewed out the aw-shucks white guy for being unsure if the sickle cell patient is drug seeking or not , but I'm willing to give it a pass so far since the Indian doctor got chewed out later in the episode for spending too much time on the sickle cell patient . However, I am pretty sure I see an incel school shooting arc coming from a mile away which promises to be very tedious.
It's also very black pilling about how many scarce ER resources are used up by drug users and the underclass, like the guy who had to be airlifted(!) to the hospital after a copper theft went wrong. I doubt that the showrunners intended this interpretation though.
Absolutely true to life though! Some mostly not burnt out and energetic trainee yelling at a more junior trainee who is just trying to not die and then herself getting yelled at by a much more burnt out supervisor. This is life!
The resolution of the arc you are thinking about is done very well, don't worry.
And yes practical experience of medicine can be very black pilling - homeless, drug users, illegal immigrants...but then also fat people, people who refuse to take their meds or listen to other advice...it gets murky very quickly.
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