Has Hollywood’s Woke Fever Broken?

When I heard that Netflix was making a new Little House on the Prairie series, my reaction was, which one of them was going to be black and transgender.

The teaser trailer is here and it’s oddly normal. Things had gotten to the point where I didn’t think I’d see anything this normal again coming from of the usual suspects.

Yes, purists will object. And Pa looks like he belongs in a Portland hiking store. But it looks like a reasonable attempt at a period piece absent obvious wokeness. Which is the last thing Netlix is known for.

Then there’s the Masters of the Universe trailer, which does have a single blackwashed character, but also has a strong male lead, and in which pronouns and the obligatory LGBTQ character appear to be negative elements associated with the modern world.

And then there’s the Mortal Kombat trailer

Trailers don’t show the whole story and maybe all three productions are infested with wokeness, but these are prestige intellectual properties which were ground zero for having male characters reduced or replaced with ‘girlbosses’, for subverting any kind of normal male-female relationships, and for making pronoun people and minorities into the center of everything… which aren’t.

Has Hollywood’s woke fever broken? Probably not at Disney. But at least some of Hollywood seems to be moving on.