Woke.

Let’s see…the bully male kid who “deserves” to be killed merely for being basically a bully. It’s a horror movie and there has to be a perceived threat that Katy will buy into so the kid actor pretty much has to use lots of play-it-big juice. Well yeah he’s white too but that doesn’t have much traction here I think. I could ###### about why it’s always white males who play unsympathetic roles but I give that scene a pass. It gets one pass. The movie does have the obligatory diversified casting but I didn’t see anything militant or signalling.

M3gan is completely unsympathetic as a symbol of feminine power seeing as how she snaps a dog’s neck and gets her face torn off revealing her true demonic self. I thought the fear of AI was timely subject matter and they certainly did nothing to push it onto us as useful in any way.

The one piece of woke I think was they kind of “explained” why M3gan was white by showing other similar dolls of color. “So sorry! We’re good! We diversify!” But that’s not a big deal actually. It’s natural little girls want features similar to theirs. I remember during the Cabbage Patch Kids craze of the 80s a parent bought their white kid a black Cabbage Patch Doll and the little girl burst out crying. She doesn’t know any better and she can always learn respect for others at a later date. So lily white Katy gets a lily white doll. No biggie.

I don’t see any woke, and I’m good at spotting that.