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The White Lotus — Season 3

WOKE TRAP Series · HBO · February 19, 2026

Mike White's third season of The White Lotus is the most spiritually ambitious television he has made, and that ambition is both its most compelling feature and its most revealing ideological tell.…...

WOKE: 16 TRAD: 9 AUTH: 60%
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Black Mirror — Season 7

MIXED Series · Netflix · February 19, 2026

Black Mirror returns for its seventh season with six new episodes that collectively demonstrate both why the show has endured and why it has never been fully co-opted by any one ideological tendency.…...

WOKE: 9 TRAD: 8 AUTH: 55%
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Andor — Season 2

WOKE Series · Disney+ · February 19, 2026

Andor Season 2 is probably the finest piece of television Disney has produced under the Star Wars banner — and it is, without reservation, the most explicitly political. These two facts are related.…...

WOKE: 15 TRAD: 10 AUTH: 65%
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The Penguin

TRADITIONAL Series · HBO · February 19, 2026

The Penguin is the best argument that prestige superhero television doesn't have to be ideologically captured to be excellent.…...

WOKE: 9 TRAD: 14 AUTH: 70%
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Bridgerton — Season 4

WOKE TRAP Series · Theatrical · February 18, 2026

Bridgerton Season 4 wraps Benedict's story in silk and good intentions — and beneath the Regency corsets and ballroom choreography, quietly delivers one of the franchise's most ambitious ideological rewrites yet.…...

WOKE: 28 TRAD: 12 AUTH: 50%
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One Piece — Season 2

PREDICTED: TRADITIONAL Series · Theatrical · February 18, 2026

This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....

WOKE: 3 TRAD: 7 AUTH: 74%
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Outlander — Season 8

PREDICTED: TRADITIONAL Series · Theatrical · February 18, 2026

This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....

WOKE: 4 TRAD: 6 AUTH: 68%
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Ted — Season 2

PREDICTED: TRADITIONAL Series · Theatrical · February 18, 2026

This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....

WOKE: 3 TRAD: 6 AUTH: 72%
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Scarpetta

PREDICTED: CAUTION Series · Theatrical · February 18, 2026

This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....

WOKE: 58 TRAD: 42 AUTH: 55%
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The Night Agent — Season 3

TRADITIONAL Series · Netflix · February 18, 2026

Three seasons in, The Night Agent remains one of Netflix's most conservative-friendly prestige productions — and Season 3 makes no apologies for it.…...

WOKE: 7 TRAD: 25 AUTH: 72%
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Scrubs — Season 10 Revival

MIXED Series · ABC / Hulu · February 18, 2026

The original Scrubs ran nine seasons across NBC and ABC, and at its best it was something genuinely special: a workplace comedy that balanced absurdist fantasy with real emotional stakes, that portrayed medicine honestly enough to earn respect from a…...

WOKE: 11 TRAD: 24 AUTH: 62%
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Paradise — Season 2

MIXED Series · Hulu · February 18, 2026

Dan Fogelman built his reputation on This Is Us — a show that knew exactly how to make you cry, that understood emotional architecture with almost clinical precision, and that often used that precision in service of specific progressive narratives ab…...

WOKE: 16 TRAD: 22 AUTH: 68%
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Stranger Things

WOKE Series · Netflix · February 17, 2026

There was a time when Stranger Things felt like a miracle. In the summer of 2016, Netflix dropped this weird little show about a missing kid in small-town Indiana, and it captured something audiences had been starving for.…...

WOKE: 13 TRAD: 8 AUTH: 62%
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Ozark

WOKE Series · Netflix · February 17, 2026

Ozark is genuinely good television. Across its four-season run, it delivered some of the tightest crime-thriller writing on any streaming platform.…...

WOKE: 9 TRAD: 5 AUTH: 64%
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The Bear

TRADITIONAL Series · Hulu / FX · February 17, 2026

Season 1 of The Bear is genuinely great television. Carmen Berzatto returns to Chicago after his brother Michael's suicide, inheriting a failing Italian beef shop, a mountain of debt, and a staff that ranges from hostile to barely functional.…...

WOKE: 5 TRAD: 9 AUTH: 82%
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Yellowjackets

MIXED Series · Showtime / Paramount+ · February 17, 2026

Yellowjackets arrived with a pitch that practically dared you to watch: a girls' soccer team crashes in the Canadian wilderness, and over nineteen months they descend into tribal violence and cannibalism. Season one delivers on that promise, mostly.…...

WOKE: 8 TRAD: 6 AUTH: 70%
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The Last of Us — Season 2

WOKE Series · HBO · February 3, 2026

Season 1 earned enormous trust through grounded storytelling and earned emotional beats. Season 2 leverages that trust to introduce ideological reframing that would not have survived scrutiny if presented upfront.…...

WOKE: 11 TRAD: 3 AUTH: 35%
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Severance — Season 2

MIXED Series · Apple TV+ · January 22, 2026

The anti-corporate themes are structurally embedded and largely organic to the world-building. Some ideological markers are present but remain secondary to genuine narrative ambition.…...

WOKE: 6 TRAD: 4 AUTH: 72%
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1923 — Season 2

TRADITIONAL Series · Paramount+ · January 15, 2026

Continues the Yellowstone universe's commitment to depicting traditional American values — land stewardship, family loyalty, personal sacrifice — without apology. Characters are defined by their choices and virtues, not by demographic categories.…...

WOKE: 2 TRAD: 10 AUTH: 88%

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