The Good Wife
tv·15·Jul 8, 2016·
The Good Wife keeps its 2/10 woke score by focusing purely on courtroom ethics, trial strategy, and personal scandals with zero identity politics or systemic critiques.
The Good Wife is a Korean remake of the American legal drama, following a skilled female lawyer who restarts her career after her husband's public infidelity scandal, with storylines centered on standard courtroom procedurals such as sexual assault cases, drunk driving incidents, life support disputes, witness murders, and divorce proceedings.
These episodes emphasize traditional themes of personal ethics, professional pressure, cheating, and trial strategy without any alterations to the core premise. The provided season analysis shows no evidence of identity politics, systemic oppression critiques, or forced diversity in casting or character arcs, resulting in minimal progressive messaging overall. This aligns with the show's official content rating of 2/10.
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We've run a full content analysis on The Good Wife and scored it 2/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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 The Good Wife's overall score.
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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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