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LEGO Friends: The Next Chapter
tv·TV-Y·Jun 17, 2023·
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LEGO Friends: The Next Chapter
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TV-Y
June 17, 2023
Wokeometer Rating
6Mixed
Scale: 0 = not woke, 10 = maximally woke
TL;DR Verdict
LEGO Friends: The Next Chapter scores 6/10 due to its deliberate centering of character traits like limb differences, ADHD, anxiety, and neurodivergence, along with gender-norm challenges, as core plot drivers shaped by research-backed inclusion efforts. These elements add moderate ideological weight without heavy lectures or sole focus on messaging.
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Detailed Analysis
LEGO Friends: The Next Chapter follows a new cast of eight characters—five girls and three boys with varied ethnic backgrounds—navigating high school friendships, community center projects, and episodic stories of teamwork, personal growth, science experiments, and holiday events.
The series explicitly centers representation through traits such as Autumn's limb difference, Liann's ADHD, Paisley's anxiety, Nova's neurodivergence and blunt style, and challenges to gender norms like Leo's interest in cooking, with these elements shaping multiple plots including exclusion arcs, identity conflicts, and self-acceptance resolutions. LEGO's collaboration with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and research-driven focus on diversity make inclusion foundational to character creation and storylines rather than incidental. This intentional approach in children's media produces moderate ideological weight without heavy identity-politics lectures or source-material alterations, resulting in the show's overall woke score of 6/10.
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LEGO's foundational approach to the series stems from institutional partnerships and research mandates emphasizing diversity and inclusion as core to character creation and narrative development.
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We've run a full content analysis on LEGO Friends: The Next Chapter and scored it 6/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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What kind of woke content is in LEGO Friends: The Next Chapter?
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 LEGO Friends: The Next Chapter's overall score.
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