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Game of Thrones

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TV-MA
April 17, 2011
Wokeometer Rating
2Based
Audience Woke Score
5/10
Mixed
6 Ratings
Scale: 0 = not woke, 10 = maximally woke

TL;DR Verdict

Game of Thrones: Ultra-low 2/10 wokeness. Book-faithful epic delivers raw power struggles, brutal wars, and flawed heroes without DEI, race-swaps, or political lectures—pure story-driven entertainment.

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Detailed Analysis

Game of Thrones is a gritty medieval fantasy epic set in the continents of Westeros and Essos, chronicling brutal power struggles, family betrayals, wars, conquests, and existential threats like dragons and the undead, all drawn faithfully from George R.R.

Martin's source material. The series features a predominantly white British and Irish cast that organically matches the books' demographics, with no race-swapping, gender alterations, or forced DEI insertions, allowing themes of raw politics, violence, incest, and survival to dominate without overt social justice lectures, identity politics, or critiques of systemic issues. Strong female characters like Cersei, Daenerys, Arya, and Sansa exhibit agency through cunning ambition and realistic flaws rather than empowerment anthems, contributing to consistently low wokeness scores (1-3/10) across seasons, as reception praised narrative purity and spectacle while decrying only pacing, violence, or writing flaws—not progressive intrusions.

Methodology: Each score synthesizes audience discourse, critic and aggregator reception, and press coverage — weighed against the work itself, not any single source.

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Seasons

Game of Thrones - Season 1
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Game of Thrones - Season 2
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Game of Thrones - Season 3
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Game of Thrones - Season 4
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Game of Thrones - Season 5
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Game of Thrones - Season 6
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Directed by

  • David Nutter
  • Alan Taylor
  • Alex Graves
16 more directors
  • Jeremy Podeswa
  • Mark Mylod
  • Miguel Sapochnik
  • Daniel Minahan
  • Alik Sakharov
  • Michelle MacLaren
  • Brian Kirk
  • D. B. Weiss
  • Daniel Sackheim
  • David Benioff
  • David Petrarca
  • Jack Bender
  • Matt Shakman
  • Michael Slovis
  • Neil Marshall
  • Tim Van Patten

Is Game of Thrones Woke?

We've run a full content analysis on Game of Thrones and scored it 2/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.

Audience Fit
2.5/5
Mixed fit

Audience Fit is the inverse of the community's average woke rating of 5.2/10: the less woke our audience finds a title, the more stars it earns. Based on 6 audience ratings.

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of woke content is in Game of Thrones?

Our analysis checks for themes like identity politics, race-swapping, gender ideology, environmental activism, anti-religious messaging, and other progressive agenda elements. The score breakdown above shows which specific categories were flagged and how heavily they factor into Game of Thrones's overall score.

Is Game of Thrones family-friendly?

Wokeometer focuses on ideological content rather than traditional ratings (violence, language, etc.). Game of Thrones is rated TV-MA. For a full picture, combine our woke analysis with the age rating to decide if it's right for your family.

How does Wokeometer score tv shows?

We evaluate media across multiple ideological categories on a 0–10 scale. Scores of 0–3 mean story-first, 4–6 have moderate elements, and 7–10 flag heavily agenda-driven content. Learn more about our methodology →

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Peter Dinklage
2.2Based

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Tyrion 'The Halfman' Lannister

Kit Harington
1.9Based

Kit Harington

Jon Snow

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
1.5Based

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Sir Jaime 'Kingslayer' Lannister

Lena Headey
2.1Based

Lena Headey

Cersei Lannister

Emilia Clarke
1.8Based

Emilia Clarke

Daenerys Targaryen

Liam Cunningham
3.1Based

Liam Cunningham

Davos Seaworth

Maisie Williams
1.6Based

Maisie Williams

Arya Stark

Isaac Hempstead Wright
1.5Based

Isaac Hempstead Wright

Brandon 'Bran' Stark

Sophie Turner
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Sophie Turner

Sansa Stark

John Bradley
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Samwell 'Sam' Tarly

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Audience Reviews2

TomokahWoke3/10
Sep 29, 2026

There was no woke only just a little bit near the end, but that's fair cause the whole 8th season was a dog💩

ConservativeBarbarianOpen CriticWoke10/10
Aug 10, 2026

Outrageous show. Right from the first episode, we are introduced to the incestuous couple of a brother and sister who have children together. Producers really think out society is so rotten it would allow rooting for such disgusting characters. Even in this wokeometer review "Cercei" (what a stupid name) is described as a strong female character, while in truth she is just an evil cuckolding woman, whos one good and only feature is her jaw. George Martin and his devilish series is a scourge on the dying body of once greatest Western Civilization. And I hope we as a society recognize that if something is popular and or God forbid "well written" that doesn't mean we should endorse that. Good writing must be Christian and good. It shouldn't be this fetishistic evil fantasy crap that all of us suddenly thought was alright because our society has lost it's mind. And don't let me get started on Daenerys...

Saman
Oct 1, 2026

Bro we didn't root for an evil character. That was the point.