It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
tv·TV-MA
It's Always Sunny stays a low-woke 2/10 by sticking to raw, equal-opportunity satire and selfish chaos instead of politics or messaging. The result is neutral, story-first entertainment that mocks everyone without pushing an agenda.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a long-running dark comedy centered on five selfish, bigoted, and incompetent friends whose absurd schemes at a failing bar drive plots of personal depravity, scams, and chaotic misanthropy, delivered through equal-opportunity satire that mocks all sides without moralizing.
Across the reviewed seasons, the series maintains a core of nihilistic, boundary-pushing humor focused on character flaws and social absurdities rather than identity politics, systemic oppression, or activist framing, with casting limited to the unchanged original ensemble and no DEI-driven changes. Early seasons show virtually no progressive elements, while later ones occasionally touch topics like sexuality, gender, or cancel culture but subvert them via the gang's incompetence and hypocrisy. This consistent resistance to ideological embedding underpins the show's overall woke score of 2/10.
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We've run a full content analysis on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and scored it 2/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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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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