Is The Gentlemen (2024) (2024) woke?

TRADITIONAL LEAN -- The Gentlemen (2024) scores +7 TRAD on the VirtueVigil VVWS scale. The Gentlemen is Guy Ritchie doing what Guy Ritchie does: fast-talking criminals, intricate violence, and an aestheti...

What is the VirtueVigil score for The Gentlemen (2024)?

VirtueVigil scores The Gentlemen (2024) as TRADITIONAL LEAN with a margin of +7 TRAD. Traditional score: 6.9, Woke score: 0.

What woke content appears in The Gentlemen (2024)?

No significant woke content identified in The Gentlemen (2024) by VirtueVigil's trope audit.

Would conservatives enjoy The Gentlemen (2024)?

Probably -- The Gentlemen (2024) leans traditional with minor progressive elements. Most conservatives will enjoy it with minor caveats.

TRADITIONAL LEAN

The Gentlemen (2024)

Name: The Gentlemen (2024)
Item: The Gentlemen (2024)
Rating: 74
Author: VirtueVigil Editorial Team

The Gentlemen is Guy Ritchie doing what Guy Ritchie does: fast-talking criminals, intricate violence, and an aesthetic that makes crime look like a well-tailored suit. The series is better than the film.

Full analysis below

Series · Netflix September 26, 2026 Analyzed by Debra Ducane 10 min read

Woke Score

Traditional Score

6.9

Authenticity Index

74%

Score Margin

+7 TRAD

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✅ NOT A WOKE TRAP

The Gentlemen does not qualify as a woke trap. Carries +5 TRAD margin, TRADITIONAL LEAN verdict. Guy Ritchie's gangster fare has a consistent ideological character that is intact in the Netflix series.

Creative Team

DirectorGuy Ritchie (pilot), various

WriterGuy Ritchie, Matthew Read

Lead ProducerGuy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, Miren Jones

Our Verdict on The Gentlemen (2024)

The ideological content is lighter than most shows VirtueVigil reviews. The Horniman family seat is presented as something worth defending, not as a monument to colonial exploitation.

Eddie Horniman is driven by duty. Kaya Scodelario's Susie Glass is competent because she is intelligent, not because she is a woman overcoming oppression. The show delivers no lines about the patriarchy.

The casting is diverse without being performative. The moral framework is the code: loyalty to family, honor among thieves.

Woke Tropes & Content Analysis

Trope Audit – VVWS Weighted Scoring

Formula: Weighted Score = Severity × Authenticity Multiplier × Centrality Multiplier

🟢 Traditional Tropes

Trope	Severity	Authenticity	Centrality	Score
Aristocracy as stewardship, not pillage	4	High	High	5.4
Competence over identity	3	Moderate	Moderate	1.5
TOTAL TRADITIONAL				6.9

Score Margin: +7 TRAD

Creative Team Deep Dive

Content Breakdown

Adult Viewer Insight

The Gentlemen matters as an example of what Netflix greenlights when it is not trying to prove something. This show could have been made identically in 2004 or 2014. It has no social justice subplot, no diversity monologue, no climate moment.

Parental Guidance

Not for children. TV-MA for violence, language, and drug use. Romanticizes criminal behavior even as it punishes it -- that is the whole point of the gangster genre.