Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, transforming a lighthearted period story into a vehicle for contemporary social justice messaging. Key arcs feature overt critiques of systemic racism, including an invented indigenous Mi'kmaw family storyline centered on Ka'kwet, who faces forced assimilation and residential school horrors—historically accurate for Canada but anachronistically foregrounded without narrative justification from the books.

Feminism is amplified through suffragette activism, identity exploration, and challenges to patriarchal norms, while prominent LGBTQ+ representation includes queer soirées, a gay coming-out subplot with Anne lecturing on love rights in the 1890s, and characters like Cole as focal points. Casting adds unjustified diversity, such as black farmhand Bash with a romance and family arc, and indigenous roles clashing with the original's homogeneous Prince Edward Island setting.

Creator Moira Walley-Beckett openly states intent to inject diversity into the 'whitewashed' story, reflect modern Canada, and address inclusion, racism, and queerness, prioritizing activist messaging over faithful adaptation. This leads to widespread audience backlash decrying the season as preachy, unwatchable, and ruined by 'woke quotas,' with Reddit and social media rants about ham-fisted lectures on racism/sexism, forced politics derailing the plot, and 'go woke go broke' sentiments tied to the show's cancellation after Season 3.